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Title: Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology) by William R. Newman, Anthony Grafton ISBN: 0-262-14075-6 Publisher: MIT Press Pub. Date: 01 November, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.00

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Summary: Secrets of our Inner Nature
Comment: Table of Contents

1Introduction: The Problematic Status of Astrology and Alchemy in Premodern Europe1
2"Veritatis amor dulcissimus": Aspects of Cardano's Astrology39
3Between the Election and My Hopes: Girolamo Cardano and Medical Astrology69
4Celestial Offerings: Astrological Motifs in the Dedicatory Letters of Kepler's Astronomia Nova and Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius133
5Astronomia inferior: Legacies of Johannes Trithemius and John Dee173
6The Rosicrucian Hoax in France (1623-24)235
7"The Food of Angels": Simon Forman's Alchemical Medicine345
8Some Problems with the Historiography of Alchemy385
Contributors433
Index435

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