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Inside the Stargazer's Palace : The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe, Hardback Book

Inside the Stargazer's Palace : The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Northern Europe Hardback

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Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories'A scintillating journey into a world where discoveries rip through doctrine like meteors.

There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing ThreadIn 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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