Eamon, William

Eamon, William. Natural magic and utopia in the Cinquecento Campanella, the Della Porta Circle, and the revolt of Calabria. Memorie domenicane [ns], no. 26 (1995) 369-402. 

Eamon, William. Alchemy in popular culture Leonardo Fioravanti and the search for the Philosopher s stone. Early SciMed 5, no. 2 (May 2000) 196-213. 

Eamon, William. Arcana disclosed the advent of printing, the Book of Secrets tradition and the development of experimental science in the sixteenth century. Hist Sci 22 (1984) 111-150. 

Eamon, William. Science and the secrets of Nature Books of Secrets in medieval and early modern culture. Princeton (NJ) Princeton Univ P, 1994. xvii, 490 p. ISBN 0-691-03402-8... 

Eamon, William. "Cannibalism and Contagion Framing Syphilis in Counter-Reformation Italy." Early Science and Medicine 1 (February 1998] 1-31. 

Eamon, William. New Light on Robert Boyle and the Discovery of Colour Indicators. Ambix 27, 1980, 204-209. 

Eamon, William. 1994. Science and the Secrets of Nature. Princeton Princeton University Press. 

Ferguson, John.Bibliographical notes on histories of inventions books of secrets / by John Ferguson preface, William Eamon index revision bibliographical additions, Stephen E. Pober. Edited by William Eamon and Stephen E. Pober. London Holland P, 1959 reprint, Staten Island (NY) Pober, 1998. 1 vol (vp)... 

Cf. Will iam Eamon, Science and the Secrets ofNature Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture (Princeton, 1994) Pamela O. Long, Openness, Secrecy, Authorship Technical Arts and the Culture of Knowledge from Anticfuity to the Renaissance (Baltimore, Md., 2001) William F. Ryan and Charles B. Schmitt (eds.), Pseudo-Aristotle The Secret of Secrets Sources and Influences Ashm. 1433, ii, fo. 23 . For more on this treatise, see p. 171 below. 

William Eamon has articulated the multiple valences of secrecy in the sixteenth century as "esoteric wisdom, the domain of occult or forbidden knowledge, the artisan s cunning, the moral injunctions to protect secrets from the vulgus, and the political power that attended knowledge of secrets." Eamon, Science and the Secrets of Nature, 5. 

Marie Boas, Robert Boyle and Seventeenth-Century Chemistry (Cambridge University Press, 1958), 133-141. See also A. Albert Baker, A History of Indicators, Chymia 9, 1964, 147-167 Peta Dewar Buchanan, J. F. Gibson, and Marie Boas Hall, Experimental History of Science Boyle s Colour Changes, Ambix 25, 1978, 208-210 William Eamon, New Light on Robert Boyle and the Discovery of Colour Indicators, Ambix 27, 1980, 204-209. 

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