Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture

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1996
$63.94

By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, this title conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously.

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By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, this title conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously.

$63.94

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 510
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 13 May 1996
ISBN 10: 0691026025
ISBN 13: 9780691026022