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• catalog abstract "By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric "secrets of nature." To popular readers of the early modern era, they offered a hands-on, experimental approach to nature that made scholastic natural philosophy seem abstract and sterile. In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines. Medieval interest in the secrets of nature was spurred in part by ancient works such as Pliny's Natural History. As medieval experimenters adapted ancient knowledge to their changing needs, they created their own books of secrets, which expressed the uncritical, empiricist approach of popular culture rather than the subtle argumentation of scholastic science. The crude experimental methodology advanced by the "professors of secrets" became for the "new philosophers" of the seventeenth century a potent ideological weapon in the challenge of natural philosophy.".
• catalog contributor b5760027.
• catalog created "c1994.".
• catalog date "1994".
• catalog date "c1994.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1994.".
• catalog description "By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according to William Eamon, it is in the "how-to" books written by medieval alchemists, magicians, and artisans that modern science has its roots. These compilations of recipes on everything from parlor tricks through medical remedies to wool-dyeing fascinated medieval intellectuals because they promised access to esoteric "secrets of nature." To popular readers of the early modern era, they offered a hands-on, experimental approach to nature that made scholastic natural philosophy seem abstract and sterile.".
• catalog description "In closely examining this rich but little-known source of literature, Eamon reveals that printing technology and popular culture had as great, if not stronger, an impact on early modern science as did the traditional academic disciplines. Medieval interest in the secrets of nature was spurred in part by ancient works such as Pliny's Natural History. As medieval experimenters adapted ancient knowledge to their changing needs, they created their own books of secrets, which expressed the uncritical, empiricist approach of popular culture rather than the subtle argumentation of scholastic science. The crude experimental methodology advanced by the "professors of secrets" became for the "new philosophers" of the seventeenth century a potent ideological weapon in the challenge of natural philosophy.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-479) and index.".
• catalog description "Introduction: Printing, Popular Culture, and the Scientific Revolution -- pt. 1. The Literature of Secrets. 1. The Literature of Secrets in the Middle Ages. 2. Knowledge and Power -- pt. 2. The Secrets of Nature in the Age of Printing. 3. Arcana Disclosed. 4. The Professors of Secrets and Their Books. 5. Leonardo Fioravanti, Vendor of Secrets. 6. Natural Magic and the Secrets of Nature. 7. The Secrets of Nature in Popular Culture -- pt. 3. The "New Philosophy" 8. Science as a Venatio. 9. The Virtuosi and the Secrets of Nature. 10. From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge -- Appendix: Secreti Italiani: Italian Booklets of Secrets, ca. 1520-1643.".
• catalog extent "xv, 490 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0691034028 (acid-free paper) :".
• catalog issued "1994".
• catalog issued "c1994.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press,".
• catalog subject "1994 F-151".
• catalog subject "509/.4/0902 20".
• catalog subject "History, Early Modern 1451-1600.".
• catalog subject "Magic.".
• catalog subject "Q 125 E12s 1994".
• catalog subject "Q125 .E34 1994".
• catalog subject "Science Experiments History.".
• catalog subject "Science History.".
• catalog subject "Science Philosophy History.".
• catalog subject "Science Social aspects History.".
• catalog subject "Science, Medieval.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Introduction: Printing, Popular Culture, and the Scientific Revolution -- pt. 1. The Literature of Secrets. 1. The Literature of Secrets in the Middle Ages. 2. Knowledge and Power -- pt. 2. The Secrets of Nature in the Age of Printing. 3. Arcana Disclosed. 4. The Professors of Secrets and Their Books. 5. Leonardo Fioravanti, Vendor of Secrets. 6. Natural Magic and the Secrets of Nature. 7. The Secrets of Nature in Popular Culture -- pt. 3. The "New Philosophy" 8. Science as a Venatio. 9. The Virtuosi and the Secrets of Nature. 10. From the Secrets of Nature to Public Knowledge -- Appendix: Secreti Italiani: Italian Booklets of Secrets, ca. 1520-1643.".
• catalog title "Science and the secrets of nature : books of secrets in medieval and early modern culture / William Eamon.".
• catalog type "History. fast".
• catalog type "text".