Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 1500-1800 (The History of Medicine in Context) by Elaine Leong and Alisha Rankin
English | ISBN: 0754668541 | 2011 | PDF | 252 pages | 1,4 MB
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.