The professor of secrets mystery, medicine, and alchemy in Renaissance Italy

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Eamon, William
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic, c2010.
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Physical Description:368 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. 324-359) and index.
ISBN:9781426206504
142620650X
Author Notes:William Eamon is a widely published, internationally known and respected scholar based at New Mexico State University. His first book, Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in the Medieval and Early Modern Culture was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in history and won the History Book Award from the Association of American Publishers. He is co-editor of the excellently reviewed Beyond the Black Legend: Spain and the Scientific Revolution.