William R. Newman

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1. William R. Newman

   Author of Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and, Atoms and Alchemy: Chymistry and the Experimental Origins of the Scientific Revolution, Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution

2. Steven Shapin

   Author of Leviathan and the Air-Pump, A Social History of Truth : Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England, The Scientific Life: A Moral History of a Late Modern Vocation

3. Pamela H. Smith

   Author of The Body of the Artisan, The Business of Alchemy

4. Frances Yates

   Author of Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition, The Rosicrucian Enlightenment, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age

5. Galileo Galilei

   Author of Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo, Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (Modern Library Science), Sidereus Nuncius, or The Sidereal Messenger

6. Lorraine Daston

   Author of Wonders and the Order of Nature, 1150-1750, Objectivity

7. Antoine Faivre

   Author of Access to Western Esotericism (Suny Series in Western Esoteric Traditions), Modern Esoteric Spirituality, Theosophy, Imagination, Tradition: Studies in Western Esotericism (S U N Y Series in Western Esoteric Traditions)

8. Anthony Grafton

   Author of New Worlds, Ancient Texts: The Power of Tradition and the Shock of Discovery, Cardano's Cosmos: The Worlds and Works of a Renaissance Astrologer, Natural particulars : nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe

9. Lawrence M. Principe

   Author of The Aspiring Adept: Robert Boyle and his Alchemical Quest

10. Ian Hacking

    Author of The Taming of Chance (Ideas in Context), The Emergence of Probability: A Philosophical Study of Early Ideas about Probability, Induction and Statistical Inferenc

11. Stanton J. Linden

    Author of The Alchemy Reader: From Hermes Trismegistus to Isaac Newton

12. Peter Dear

    Author of Revolutionizing the Sciences: European Knowledge and Its Ambitions, 1500-1700, Discipline and Experience: The Mathematical Way in the Scientific Revolution

13. Thomas L. Hankins

    Author of Science in the Enlightenment, Instruments and the Imagination

14. Peter Gay

    Author of The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Rise of Modern Paganism, The Enlightenment: An Interpretation: The Science of Freedom

15. Lily E. Kay

    Author of The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology (Monographs on the Hi

16. Mary Baine Campbell

    Author of Wonder & Science: Imagining Worlds in Early Modern Europe

17. Daniel J. Kevles

    Author of In the Name of Eugenics: Genetics and the Uses of Human Heredity

18. Bruce T. Moran

    Author of Distilling Knowledge: Alchemy, Chemistry, and the Scientific Revolution (New Histories of Science, Technology, and Medic

19. Allison Kavey

    Author of Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600

20. William Eamon

    Author of Science and the Secrets of Nature