Secrets and Knowledge in Medicine and Science, 15001800

In 10 essays from a 2008 symposium at the University of Cambridge, historians of science explore the hoarding and sharing of practical knowledge in early modern Europe. Their themes are defining secrets, secrecy and openness, illicit secrets, and secrets and health. Among the topics are secrets and craft knowledge in early modern Europe, Robert Boyle and secrecy, Anna Zieglerin's alchemical revelations, keeping beauty secrets, and the revival of the preventive paradigm in late Renaissance Italy. Annotation 穢2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)