Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800 pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2025
- 科学史
- 醫療史
- STS
- PamelaSmith
- EarlyModernEurope
- Artisans
- medicine
- science
- history
- secrets
- knowledge
- 1500s
- 1800s
- ephemera
- earlymodern
具体描述
Secrets played a central role in transformations in medical and scientific knowledge in early modern Europe. As a new fascination with novelty began to take hold from the late fifteenth century, Europeans thirsted for previously unknown details about the natural world: new plants, animals, and other objects from nature, new recipes for medical and alchemical procedures, new knowledge about the human body, and new facts about the way nature worked. These 'secrets' became popular items of commerce and trade, as the quest for new and exclusive bits of information met the vibrant early modern marketplace. Whether disclosed widely in print or kept more circumspect in manuscripts, secrets helped drive an expanding interest in acquiring knowledge throughout early modern Europe. Bringing together international scholars, this volume provides a pan-European and interdisciplinary overview on the topic. Each essay offers significant new interpretations of the role played by secrets in their area of specialization. Chapters address key themes in early modern history and the history of medicine, science and technology including: the possession, circulation and exchange of secret knowledge across Europe; alchemical secrets and laboratory processes; patronage and the upper-class market for secrets; medical secrets and the emerging market for proprietary medicines; secrets and cosmetics; secrets and the body and finally gender and secrets.
作者简介
Elaine Leong, University of Cambridge, UK, and Alisha Rankin, Tufts University, USA
目录信息
Introduction: secrets and knowledge, Elaine Leong and Alisha Rankin
Part I Defining Secrets
How to read a book of secrets, William Eamon
What is a secret? Secrets and craft knowledge in early modern Europe, Pamela H. Smith
Part II Secrecy and Openness
The secrets of Sir Hugh Platt, Ayesha Mukherjee
Robert Boyle and secrecy, Michael Hunter
Openness vs. secrecy in the Hartlib circle: revisiting 'democratic Baconism' in Interregnum England, Michelle DiMeo
Part III Illicit Secret
Anna Zieglerin's alchemical revelations, Tara Nummedal
Face waters, oils, love magic and poison: making and selling secrets in early modern Rome, Tessa Storey
Part IV Secrets and Health
Keeping beauty secrets in early modern Iberia, Montserrat CabrA(c)
Secrets to healthy living: the revival of the preventive paradigm in late Renaissance Italy, Sandro Cavallo
Secrets of place: the medical casebooks of Vivant-Augustin Ganiare, Lisa Wynne Smith
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