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Fakes!? : hoaxes, counterfeits, and deception in early modern science
- Title
- Fakes!? : hoaxes, counterfeits, and deception in early modern science / edited by Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti.
- Publication
- Sagamore Beach, MA : Science History Publications/USA, a division of Watson Publishing International LLC, 2014.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 280 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Alternative Title
- Hoaxes, counterfeits, and deception in early modern science
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: I. Is Doctoring Data Always Misconduct? -- Case Studies : Ptolemy, Copernicus, Lansbergen / Owen Gingerich -- II. File down the Data! -- Data Treatment Procedures and False Positives for Fakes in Ptolemy's Almagest / Giorgio Strano -- III. The Significance of Transmutation in Early Modern Alchemy -- The Case of Thurneysser's Half-gold Nail / Didier Kahn -- IV. Transmutations and Frauds in Enlightened Paris -- Lavoisier and Alchemy / Marco Beretta -- V. Coloring Topaz, Crystal and Moonstone -- Factitious Gems and the Imitation of Art and Nature, 300 -- 1500 / Marjoljin Bol -- VI. Divers, Sirens and Fishes : The Anatomy of Underwater Creatures / Maria Conforti -- VII. Contrivances of Art -- The Power of Imagery in the Early Modern Culture of Curiosity / Alessandro Tosi -- VIII. Athanasius Kircher's Palingenetic Plant / Ingrid Rowland -- IX. Certain Fakes and Uncertain Facts -- Jan Jonston and the Question of Truth in Religion and Natural History / Daniel Margocsy -- X. An Original Fake -- Closing the Debate on Flammarion's Engraving / Stefano Gattei.
- Call Number
- JFE 16-6164
- ISBN
- 9780881354959
- 0881354953
- LCCN
- 2014020157
- 40024413032
- OCLC
- 880541568
- Title
- Fakes!? : hoaxes, counterfeits, and deception in early modern science / edited by Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti.
- Publisher
- Sagamore Beach, MA : Science History Publications/USA, a division of Watson Publishing International LLC, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- Beretta, Marco, editor.Conforti, Maria, editor.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40024413032
- Research Call Number
- JFE 16-6164