Table of Contents: Secrets of nature :

Other Authors:	Newman, William R.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001.
Series:	Transformations
Subjects:	Astrology, European > History. Alchemy > History. > Europe Astrology > history. Alchemy. BODY, MIND & SPIRIT > Parapsychology > General. Alchemie. Europe. Europa (geografie)
Online Access:	http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=74524

Table of Contents:

Introduction: the problematic status of astrology 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 nuncios / H. Darrel Rutkin
Astronomia inferior: legacies of Johanes 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 historiography of alchemy / Lawrence M. Principe and William R. Newman.