Secrets of nature
Subtitle: astrology and alchemy in early modern Europe
By: edited by William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Series: Transformations; Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 443
Subjects: Alchemy; Astrology; European Astrology; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Introduction: the problematic status of astrology and alchemy in premodern Europe / William R. Newman and Anthony Grafton; title: "Veritatis amor dulcissimus": aspects of Cardano's astrology / Germana Ernst; title: Between the election and my hopes: Girolamo Cardano and medical astrology / Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi; title: Celestial offerings: astrological motifs in the dedicatory letters of Kepler's Astronomia nova and Galileo's Sidereus nuncios / H. Darrel Rutkin; title: Astronomia inferior: legacies of Johanes Trithemius and John Dee / N.H. Clulee; title: The Rosicrucian hoax in France (1623-24) / Didier Kahn; title: "The food of angels": Simon Forman's alchemical medicine / Lauren Kassell; title: Some problems with the historiography of alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe and William R. Newman.