A magical world : superstition and science from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment / Derek K. Wilson.
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TextPublisher: New York : Pegasus Books, 2018Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover editionDescription: x, 310 pages ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781681776453
- 1681776456
- 201/.65Â 23
- BL245Â .W68 2018
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| Book | Fort Scott Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Fort Scott Public Library | Adult Books | 201 Wils (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 35326000427284 | ||
| Book | Independence Public Library Adult Non-Fiction | Independence Public Library | Adult Books | 201.65 WILSON (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 36123001610698 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: '42' -- New wine and old wineskins -- A magical world -- Re-evaluation -- Heavens above? -- Medicine men -- Seeing may be believing -- Confusion -- I think--so what? -- The religion of doctors -- Spreading the word -- Day star of the Enlightenment -- Avant le deluge.
Spanning some of the most vibrant and fascinating eras in European history, Cambridge historian Derek Wilson reveals a society filled with an ardent desire for knowledge and astounding discoveries and the fantastic discoveries that flowered from it. There was the discovery of the movement of blood around the body; the movement of the earth around the sun; the velocity of falling objects (and why those objects fell).
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