Science and the Secrets of Nature

Cosmetics, Whiteness, and Fashioning Early Modern Englishness

“…William Eamon has previously observed that Ruscelli's recipes "had become such common currency" during the period "that it is difficult to find a medical or technical recipe book that does not include at least a few of them." 61 Originally published in Italian in 1555, the book of secrets, considered the first of this genre, was translated into English in 1595 and later reprinted more than one hundred times before the nineteenth century. 62 As evidenced by these numbers, The Secrets was one of the more popular books on medicine, beauty, and the management of the body printed during this period.…”

“…63 Positioning himself as a kind of "wandering Empiricist," to borrow Eamon's apt descriptor, Ruscelli writes that the "collection of these secrets" was one of "intolerable pains" dependent on his "wandering almost all the world over." 64 An early cosmopolite, he goes on to note that due to this "knowledge of the Latine, Greek, Hebrew, Taldei, and Arabick tongue" and his "singular pleasure in phylosophie, and in the secrets of nature," he was able to gather secrets while traveling to the "Levant," and "sundrie times" to "almost all other parts of the world." 65 While Ruscelli certainly positions himself as the protoimperialist collector of overseas goods, his text is nonetheless interested in offering some attribution for knowledge passed on, traded, and garnered from geographic locations other than Europe.…”

Inkunabuły i starodruki ze zbiorów biblioteki i archiwum kolegiaty pw. św. Marcina w Opatowie – wybrane pozycje.

“…Był to żyjący ok. 1520-1578 roku francuski lekarz, matematyk i astronom, ale w obszarze jego zainteresowań pozostawała także biologia i meteorologia. W swoich pracach korzystał często z literatury antycznej i średniowiecznej; podejmował w nich próby wyjaśnienia zjawisk fi zycznych i przyrodniczych przy jednoczesnym podkreśleniu sił natury i ich znaczenia dla człowieka 160 .…”

“…Egzemplarz pierwszego wydania tego podręcznika znajduje się w bibliotece opatowskiej 176 . Jego stan jest zasadniczo bardzo [160,161,55] Lublin 1975, s. 20;A. Derdziuk, Polscy teologowie moraliści XVII w., "Rocznik Teologiczny", 48 (2001) z.…”

The European Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, and Modern Economic Growth

“…Inventions such as paper, printing, and the telegraph, as well as improvements in transportation and postal services were an important factor. There can be no question, however, that institutions played a major role here, and that the emergence of open science and a culture of sharing knowledge as well as a growing aversion to the secrecy associated with useful knowledge in earlier times, so typical of the age of Enlightenment, were critical in reducing access costs (Eamon, 1994). If knowledge were to grow, it needed specialization, a "division of knowledge."…”