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" Secrets of nature : "
edited by William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton.
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BL
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626264
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| Title & Author
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Secrets of nature : : astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe /\ edited by William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton.
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Cambridge, Mass. :: MIT Press,, 2001.
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Transformations
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443 p. :: ill. (1 col.) ;; 23 cm.
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0262140756 (alk. paper)
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: 9780262140751 (alk. paper)
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: 0262640627 (pbk.)
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: 9780262640626 (pbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction: the problematic status of astrology and alchemy in premodern Europe / William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton -- "Veritatis amor dulcissimus": aspects of Cardano's astrology / Germana Ernst -- Between the election and my hopes: Girolamo Cardano and medical astrology / Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi -- Celestial offerings: astrological motifs in the dedicatory letters of Kepler's Astronomia nova and Galileo's Sidereus nuncios / H. Darrel Rutkin -- Astronomia inferior: legacies of Johanes Trithemius and John Dee / N.H. Clulee -- The Rosicrucian hoax in France (1623-24) / Didier Kahn -- "The food of angels": Simon Forman's alchemical medicine / Lauren Kassell -- Some problems with the historiography of alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe and William R. Newman.
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Astrology, European-- History.
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Alchemy-- Europe-- History.
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Astrology-- history.
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Alchemy.
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BF1676.S43 2001
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Newman, William R.,1955-
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Grafton, Anthony.
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