Series
Edition
- 1. MIT Press paperback ed.
Published
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press 2006
Physical description
443 p. : ill.
ISBN
- 0262140756
- 9780262140751
- 0262640627
- 9780262640626
Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Some text in Latin.
Contents
- Introduction : the problematic status of astology 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 Nuncius / H. Darrel Rutkin -- Astronomia inferior : legacies of Johnannes 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 historigraphy of alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe and William R. Newman.
Subject
Other names
Genre
- Aufsatzsammlung.
- Illustrated
- text
Language
- English
- Undetermined
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