Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The

Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe by Violet Moller

• Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe
• Violet Moller
• Page: 304
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781639368372
• Publisher: Pegasus Books

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Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumption. A new age was coming into view – one guided by observation, technology and logic. But omens and elixirs did not disappear from the sixteenth-century laboratory. Charms and potions could still be found nestled between glistening brass instruments and leather-bound tomes. The line between the natural and supernatural remained porous, yet to be defined. From the icy Danish observatory of Tycho Brahe, to the smoky, sulphur-stained workshop of John Dee, Violet Moller tours the intellectual heart of early European science. Exploring its rich, multidisciplinary culture, Inside the Stargazer’s Palace reveals a dazzling forgotten world, where all knowledge, no matter how arcane, could be pursued in good faith.

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