Author: John Ferguson
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Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets
Author: John Ferguson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets
Author: John Ferguson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets: Supplements 1-7 and index
Author: John Ferguson
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Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Alchemy
Languages : en
Pages : 470
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Bibliographical Notes on Histories of Inventions and Books of Secrets
Author: John Ferguson
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Languages : en
Pages : 285
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Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500–1800
Author: Alisha Rankin
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317058321
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317058321
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
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.
Venice's Secret Service
Author: Ioanna Iordanou
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192508830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192508830
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 411
Book Description
Venice's Secret Service is the untold and arresting story of the world's earliest centrally-organised state intelligence service. Long before the inception of SIS and the CIA, in the period of the Renaissance, the Republic of Venice had masterminded a remarkable centrally-organised state intelligence organisation that played a pivotal role in the defence of the Venetian empire. Housed in the imposing Doge's Palace and under the direction of the Council of Ten, the notorious governmental committee that acted as Venice's spy chiefs, this 'proto-modern' organisation served prominent intelligence functions including operations (intelligence and covert action), analysis, cryptography and steganography, cryptanalysis, and even the development of lethal substances. Official informants and amateur spies were shipped across Europe, Anatolia, and Northern Africa, conducting Venice's stealthy intelligence operations. Revealing a plethora of secrets, their keepers, and their seekers, Venice's Secret Service explores the social and managerial processes that enabled their existence and that furnished the foundation for an extraordinary intelligence organisation created by one of the early modern world's most cosmopolitan states.
Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Author:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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Transactions of the Bibliographical Society
Author: Bibliographical Society (Great Britain)
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Publisher:
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Category : Accounting
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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Transactions of the Glasgow Archaeological Society
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Transactions
Author: Glasgow Archaeological Society
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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Publisher:
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Category : Archaeology
Languages : en
Pages : 706
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