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PhD History University of California, Berkeley
Masters History University of California, Berkeley
Bachelors History University of California, Berkeley

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According to Wikipedia, William Eamon is distinguished Achievement Professor, Regents Professor of History, and Dean of the Honors College at New Mexico State University. He is a specialist in the history of science and has published on various aspects of medieval and early modern science, medicine, and technology. His research focuses primarily on the history science and medicine in early modern Italy and Spain. His most influential work is on the history of the "books of secrets" tradition in medieval and early modern culture.

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William Eamon's Published Works

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Science and the Secrets of Nature: Books of Secrets in Medieval and Early Modern Culture by William Eamon (1996) (329)
:The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution (2006) (186)
Gehennical Fire: The Lives of George Starkey, an American Alchemist in the Scientific Revolution by William R. Newman (1997) (97)
From the secrets of nature to public knowledge: The origins of the concept of openness in science (1985) (56)
Technology as Magic in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance (1983) (44)
Science and the Secrets of Nature (2020) (27)
Alchemy in popular culture: Leonardo Fioravanti and the search for the philosopher's stone. (2000) (23)
The Accademia Segreta of Girolamo Ruscelli: A Sixteenth-Century Italian Scientific Society (1984) (22)
The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine, and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy (2010) (21)
Arcana Disclosed: The Advent of Printing, the Books of Secrets Tradition and the Development of Experimental Science in the Sixteenth Century (1984) (20)
Science and Popular Culture in Sixteenth Century Italy: The "Professors of Secrets" and Their Books (1985) (18)
Plagues, Healers, and Patients in Early Modern Europe (2015) (16)
The Scientific Renaissance (2007) (16)
NEW LIGHT ON ROBERT BOYLE AND THE DISCOVERY OF COLOUR INDICATORS (1980) (13)
Books of secrets in medieval and early modern science. (1985) (13)
Spanish Science in the Age of the New (2018) (12)
Cannibalism and contagion: framing syphilis in counter-reformation Italy. (1998) (11)
"Plebs amat empirica": Nicholas of Poland and his critique of the mediaeval medical establishment. (1987) (8)
Markets, Piazzas, and Villages (2006) (8)
Spain and the Scientific Revolution: Historiographical Questions and Conjectures (2007) (7)
A Theater of Experiments: Giambattista Della Porta and the Scientific Culture of Renaissance Naples (2017) (6)
PHYSICIANS AND THE REFORM OF POPULAR CULTURE IN EARLY MODERN EUROPE (2009) (6)
How to Read a Book of Secrets (2016) (5)
The tale of Monsieur Gout. (1981) (3)
The "Secret of Secrets": The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages (review) (2006) (3)
Pharmaceutical self-fashioning or how to get rich and famous in the Renaissance medical marketplace. (2003) (3)
Kingdom and church in New England; Puritan eschatology from John Cotton to Jonathan Edwards (1970) (2)
Books of Secrets and Vernacular Knowledge (2020) (1)
Science and Medicine in Early Modern Venice (2013) (1)
Inventing the World: Einstein and the Generation of 1905 (1985) (1)
The Disordered Body. Epidemic Disease and Cultural Transformation. Suzanne E. Hatty , James Hatty (2002) (1)
Paracelsus: An Alchemical Life (2021) (1)
Nature, Empire, and Nation: Explorations of the History of Science in the Iberian World (review) (2007) (0)
Book Review:Medieval Science and Technology: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography Claudia Kren (1986) (0)
The charlatan's trial: an Italian surgeon in the court of King Philip II, 1576-1577. (2005) (0)
Healthy Living in Late Renaissance Italy by Sandra Cavallo and Tessa Storey (review) (2015) (0)
Pamela H. Smith.The Body of the Artisan: Art and Experience in the Scientific Revolution. x + 367 pp., illus., bibl., index. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2004. $35 (cloth). (2006) (0)
The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan by Monica Azzolini (review) (2013) (0)
Alchemy: The Philosopher's Stone. Allison Coudert (1981) (0)
Book Review:Chemical Pharmacy Enters the University: Johannes Hartmann and the Didactic Care of Chymiatria in the Early Seventeenth Century Bruce T. Moran (1993) (0)
How the West was won (2017) (0)
Paul Kléber Monod. Solomon's Secret Arts: The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment. (2015) (0)
The Italian Renaissance of Machines. Paolo Galluzzi. Trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum. The Bernard Berenson Lectures on the Italian Renaissance. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. x + 276 pp. $39.95. (2022) (0)
Book Review:Pseudo-Aristotle: The Secret of Secrets--Sources and Influences W. F. Ryan, Charles B. Schmitt (1985) (0)
How the West was won (2017) (0)
Nicolas Chuquet, Renaissance Mathematician: A Study with Extensive Translation of Chuquet's Mathematical Manuscript Completed in 1484. Graham Flegg , Cynthia Hay , Barbara Moss (1986) (0)
The Duke and the Stars: Astrology and Politics in Renaissance Milan. By Monica Azzolini (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013) 370 pp. $49.95 (2013) (0)
6. Medicine as a Hunt: Searching for the Secrets of the New World (2019) (0)
Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers (2020) (0)
The French Paracelsians: The Chemical Challenge to Medical and Scientific Tradition in Early Modern France.Allen G. Debus (1994) (0)
Corn, cochineal, and quina: The “Zilsel Thesis” in a colonial Iberian setting (2018) (0)
5. Astrology and Society (2014) (0)
Prophecy and Power: Astrology in Early Modern England.Patrick Curry (1994) (0)
Frank Klaassen.The Transformations of Magic: Illicit Learned Magic in the Later Middle Ages and Renaissance. Magic in History. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2013. x + 280 pp. $69.95. ISBN: 978–0–271–05626–5. (2013) (0)
David Gentilcore.Medical Charlatanism in Early Modern Italy. 426 pp., figs., bibl., index. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. $120 (cloth). (2009) (0)
Steven J. Williams. The "Secret of Secrets": The Scholarly Career of a Pseudo-Aristotelian Text in the Latin Middle Ages (2006) (0)
Review essay: Plagues, healers, and patients in early modern Europe. (1999) (0)
Daniel Jütte. The Age of Secrecy: Jews, Christians, and the Economy of Secrets, 1400–1800. (2017) (0)
Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600 (review) (2008) (0)
Marvels of medicine: literature and scientific enquiry in early colonial Spanish America (2022) (0)
Medicine as a Hunt: Searching for the Secrets of the New World (2019) (0)
Book Review:A Social History of Truth: Civility and Science in Seventeenth-Century England. Steven Shapin, David L. Hull (1997) (0)

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