Reading the book of nature : the other side of the scientific revolution /
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Kiksville, Missouri :
Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers,
1998.
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| Series: | Sixteenth Century Essays and Studies ;
v. 41 |
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Table of Contents:
- Genesis and chemistry in the Sixteenth century. Seeds with a mechanical purpose : Severinus' Semina and Seventeenth century matter theory. Erastus and Patracelsianism : theological motifs in Thomas Erastus' rejection of paracelsian natural philosophy. Libavius the paracelsian ?. Monstrous novelties, institutions and the norms of social virtue. Alchemical and baconian views on the art-nature division. The wisdom of the ancients and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. John Dee and the paracelsians. An older view about matter in John Wilkins modern mathematical magick. Paracelsus and the delayed scientific revolution in Spain : a legacy of Philip II. Danish medicines for the danes and the defense of indigenous medicines. Diversity in alchemy : the case of Gaston Claveus DuClo, a scholastic mercurialist chrysopoeian. The many worlds of Jean D'Espagnet. Talismans, incubi, divination and the Book of M* : the bureau d'adresse confronts the occult. Nature and art in seventeenth-century french chemical textbooks. The contribution of Laurent Joubert's Traité du Ris to sixteenth-century physiology of Laughter