Author: Righini Bonelli, Maria Luisa ; & Shea, William R. ; editors:
Title: Reason, Experiment, and Mysticism in the Scientific Revolution
Description: London, Macmillan, (1975). orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 23x15cm, vi,320 pp, Several pages bear small lightly-pencilled marks to page margins.. Textual illustrations.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contains 17 papers. Includes: Trends of Interpretation in 17th-Century Science; The Chemical Debates of the 17th Century: The Reaction to Robert Fludd & Jean Baptiste van Halmont; Alchemy in the 17th Century: The European & Italian Scene; New Light on Galileo's Lunar Observations; Dissertatio cum Professore Righini et Siderei Nuncio; Terrestrial Interpretations of Lunar Spots; Marcello Malpighi & the Founding of Anatomical Microscopy; Malpighi, Descartes & the Epistemological Problems of Iatromechanism; Galileo's New Science of Motion; The Sources of Galileo's Early Natural Philosophy; Mathematics & Galileo's Inclined Plane Experiment; The Role of Alchemy in Newton's Career; Newton, a Sceptical Alchemist?; Newton's Voyage in the Strange Seas of Alchemy; Hermeticism, Rationality & the Scientific Revolution; Magic, Metaphysics & Mysticism in the Scientific Revolution; The Mathematical Revolution of the 17th Century.

Keywords: History of Science, Galileo, Isaac Newton, Alchemy, Hermeticism, Seventeenth Century, Marcello Malpighi, Microscopy, Physics Chemistry