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Secrets of nature

astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe

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MIT Press
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Pages
443

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Table of Contents

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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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic data. Boulder, Colo. : NetLibrary, 2003.

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Transformations, Transformations (M.I.T. Press)

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133/.094
Library of Congress
BF1676 .S43 2001eb

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443 p. :
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443

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OL25534368M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 10
0585435758
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2001030602
OCLC/WorldCat
51958599

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