Secrets and knowledge in medicine and science, 1500-1800 /
Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical, alchemical, natural philosophical and commercial knowledge in early modern Europe. This volume brings together international scholars from a variety of fields to offer insights and new interpretations into the role played by secrets in the...
Други автори: | Leong, Elaine Yuen Tien, 1975-, Rankin, Alisha Michelle. |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
Farnham, UK ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
℗♭2011.
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Серия: |
History of medicine in context.
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Онлайн достъп: |
http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=398275 |
Съдържание:
- Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction: Secrets and Knowledge; Part I Defining Secrets; 1 How to Read a Book of Secrets; 2 What is a Secret? Secrets and Craft Knowledge in Early Modern Europe; Part II Secrecy and Openness; 3 The Secrets of Sir Hugh Platt; 4 Robert Boyle and Secrecy; 5 Openness vs. Secrecy in the Hartlib Circle; Part III Illicit Secrets; 6 Anna Zieglerin's Alchemical Revelations; 7 Face Waters, Oils, Love Magic and Poison: Making and Selling Secrets in Early Modern Rome; Part IV Secrets and Health; 8 Keeping Beauty Secrets in Early Modern Iberia.
- 9 Secrets to Healthy Living: The Revival of the Preventive Paradigm in Late Renaissance Italy10 Secrets of Place: The Medical Casebooks of Vivant-Augustin Ganiare; Index.