William Eamon
Biographic Data
| ID | 978594 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Eamon |
| GIVEN NAMES | William |
| FAMILY NAME | Eamon |
| SIGNATURE | EAMON W |
| AFFILIATIONS | New Mexico State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Natural Designs: Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo and the Invention of New World Nature
The Italian Renaissance of Machines
The Italian Renaissance of Machines. Paolo Galluzzi. Trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum. The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. x + 276 pp. $39.95. - Volume 75 Issue 4
Spanish Science in the Age of the New
The Early Modern age may be described as the Age of the New. Renaissance peoples’ fascination with novelty had innumerable objects, none more alluring than the wonders of nature. Whether in the form of exotic plants and animals from the New World or the long-hidden “secrets of nature,” novelty was a singular feature of Renaissance science. This chapter describes the spaces, institutions, and personalities that shaped Spanish science in the Age of…
Daniel Jütte. The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800
In 1588 the Holy Roman Empire faced a moment of crisis. Archduke Maximilian, the brother of Emperor Rudolf II, was arrested and incarcerated by the Swedish prince Sigismund Vasa during the dispute over the Polish Crown, which resulted in Sigismund becoming king of Poland. In a feverish effort to free his brother from captivity, Rudolf enlisted the help of the duke of Ferrara, who offered to send a prominent magus resident in his court, Abramo Col…
Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge
Ways of Making and Knowing: The Material Culture of Empirical Knowledge. Pamela H. Smith, Amy R. W. Meyers, andHarold J. Cook, eds. The Bard Graduate Center Cultural Histories of the Material World. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2013. xi + 430 pp. $60. - Volume 69 Issue 4
Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey (review)
Reviewed by: Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey William Eamon Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey. Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. xii + 312 pp. Ill. $99.00 (978-0-19-967813-6). Is fasting good for one’s health? Should I drink wine neat or diluted with water? Is it safe to drink cold beverages? How often should a person bathe or wash the hair? How much sleep s…
Paul Kléber Monod. Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
One of the more puzzling episodes in the history of the English Enlightenment finds the virtuoso Robert Boyle testifying before Parliament in support of an act to repeal the ancient prohibition on alchemical gold-making. Boyle had long been experimenting with chrysopoeia, or the transmutation of a lesser metal into gold, and thought he was close to finding the secret. Isaac Newton was dismissive of Boyle's recipe, but he was busy doing his own al…
Making Sense as a Cultural Practice: Historical Perspectives
The production of sense is a central field of action of cultural and political practice. The articles examine how, in different contexts, the construction of sense and its outcome as a cultural practice
The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance
Frank Klaassen. The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance. Magic in History. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. x + 280 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978–0–271–05626–5. - Volume 66 Issue 4
Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550–1600
Allison B. Kavey. Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550–1600. Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 2007. x + 197 pp. index. illus. bibl. $40. ISBN: 978–0–252–03209–7. - Volume 61 Issue 4
Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World
Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra. Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2006. xiv + 230 pp. index. append. bibl. 24.95 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8047-5544-3 (cl), 0-8047-5544-2 (pbk). - Volume 60 Issue 4
The "Secret of Secrets": The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages (review)
Reviewed by: The "Secret of Secrets": The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages William Eamon Steven J. Williams . The "Secret of Secrets": The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan press, 2003. xiv + 481 pp. $75.00, £47.00 (0-472-11308-9). Around 1230, a cleric by the name of Philip discovered in Antioch an Arabic manuscript that bore the myste…
The Disordered Body. Epidemic Disease and Cultural Transformation
Hatty Suzanne E. and Hatty James, The Disordered Body. Epidemic Disease and Cultural Transformation SUNY Series in Medical Anthropology, Setha Low, editor. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1999. vi + 362 pp. $18.50. ISBN 0-7914-4366-3 (pbk). - Volume 55 Issue 4
Alchemy in Popular Culture: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone
This article examines the alchemical ideas and practices of the sixteenth-century Italian surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti. I argue that Fioravanti's "search for the philosopher's stone" was as much an effort at self-fashioning as a search for alchemical gold. Exploiting the fashion for alchemical drugs, he framed a "new theory" of healing that relied on the use of distilled drugs as a means of purging bodily corruptions. His theory resonated with pop…
Plagues, Healers, and Patients in Early Modern Europe
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Paracelso e la tradizione paracelsiana
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998
Cannibalism and Contagion: Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy
The outbreak of syphilis in Europe elicited a variety of responses concerning the disease's origins and cure. In this essay, I examine the theory of the origins of syphilis advanced by the 16th-century Italian surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti. According to Fioravanti, syphilis was not new but had always existed, although it was unknown to the ancients. The syphilis epidemic, he argued, was caused by cannibalism among the French and Italian armies duri…
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Steven Shapin , David L. Hull
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman
758 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE that his Lectiones mathematicae figure so prominently in this account while the equally important Mathesis universalis ofJohn Wallis goes unmentioned. Furthermore, Dear’s reading of Barrow overlooks much ofwhat is most distinctive about his philosophy of mathemat ics, namely, his suspicion of the algebraic techniques of analytic ge ometry and his veneration for the “synthetic” procedures of the an cients…
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution
Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France
Allen G. Debus. The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvi + 247 pp. $59.95. - Volume 47 Issue 1
Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England
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Chemical Pharmacy Enters the University: Johannes Hartmann and the Didactic Care of Chymiatria in the Early Seventeenth Century . Bruce T. Moran
From the secrets of nature to public knowledge: The origins of the concept of openness in science
Cannibalism and Contagion: Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy
The outbreak of syphilis in Europe elicited a variety of responses concerning the disease's origins and cure. In this essay, I examine the theory of the origins of syphilis advanced by the 16th-century Italian surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti. According to Fioravanti, syphilis was not new but had always existed, although it was unknown to the ancients. The syphilis epidemic, he argued, was caused by cannibalism among the French and Italian armies duri…
Arcana Disclosed: The Advent of Printing, the Books of Secrets Tradition and the Development of Experimental Science in the Sixteenth Century
Robert Fludd: Hermetic Philosopher and Surveyor of Two Worlds
Alchemy: The Philosopher's Stone. Allison Coudert
Humanismus und Naturwissenschaften. Rudolf Schmitz , Fritz Krafft
The Accademia Segreta of Girolamo Ruscelli: A Sixteenth-Century Italian Scientific Society
Arcana Disclosed: The Advent of Printing, the Books of Secrets Tradition and the Development of Experimental Science in the Sixteenth Century
Fachprosa-Studien: Beitrage zur mittelalterlichen Wissenschafts- und Geistesgeschichte. Gundolf Keil
Pseudo-Aristotle: The Secret of Secrets--Sources and Influences . W. F. Ryan, Charles B. Schmitt
Artes quaerendi Occult and Scientific Mentalities in the Renaissance . Brian Vickers
Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth Century Italy: The "Professors of Secrets" and Their Books
From the secrets of nature to public knowledge: The origins of the concept of openness in science
Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician: A Study with Extensive Translation of Chuquet's Mathematical Manuscript Completed in 1484. Graham Flegg , Cynthia Hay , Barbara Moss
Medieval Science and Technology: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography. Claudia Kren
Spanien und der Basler Buchdruck bis 1600: Ein Querschnitt durch die spanische Geistesgeschichte aus der Sicht einer europäischen Buchdruckerstadt . Carlos Gilly
Chemical Pharmacy Enters the University: Johannes Hartmann and the Didactic Care of Chymiatria in the Early Seventeenth Century . Bruce T. Moran
Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France
Allen G. Debus. The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991. xvi + 247 pp. $59.95. - Volume 47 Issue 1
Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture
A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Steven Shapin , David L. Hull
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman
758 Book Reviews TECHNOLOGY AND CULTURE that his Lectiones mathematicae figure so prominently in this account while the equally important Mathesis universalis ofJohn Wallis goes unmentioned. Furthermore, Dear’s reading of Barrow overlooks much ofwhat is most distinctive about his philosophy of mathemat ics, namely, his suspicion of the algebraic techniques of analytic ge ometry and his veneration for the “synthetic” procedures of the an cients…
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution
Paracelso e la tradizione paracelsiana
Bulletin of the History of Medicine - Volume 72, Number 3, Fall 1998
Cannibalism and Contagion: Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy
The outbreak of syphilis in Europe elicited a variety of responses concerning the disease's origins and cure. In this essay, I examine the theory of the origins of syphilis advanced by the 16th-century Italian surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti. According to Fioravanti, syphilis was not new but had always existed, although it was unknown to the ancients. The syphilis epidemic, he argued, was caused by cannibalism among the French and Italian armies duri…
Plagues, Healers, and Patients in Early Modern Europe
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Alchemy in Popular Culture: Leonardo Fioravanti and the Search for the Philosopher's Stone
This article examines the alchemical ideas and practices of the sixteenth-century Italian surgeon Leonardo Fioravanti. I argue that Fioravanti's "search for the philosopher's stone" was as much an effort at self-fashioning as a search for alchemical gold. Exploiting the fashion for alchemical drugs, he framed a "new theory" of healing that relied on the use of distilled drugs as a means of purging bodily corruptions. His theory resonated with pop…
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