Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe

by Anthony Grafton

Book Overview

In recent years scholars have begun to acknowledge that the occult sciences were not marginal enterprises but an integral part of the worldview of many of our ancestors. Astrology was one of the many intellectual tools--along with what we consider to be the superior tools of social and political analysis--that Renaissance thinkers used to attack practical and intellectual problems. It was a coherent body of practices, strongly supported by social...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262140756
• ISBN13: 9780262140751
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.4" x 9.2"