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The Monster in the Machine : Magic, Medicine, and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution
The Monster in the Machine Magic Medicine and the Marvelous in the Time of the Scientific Revolution
Author: Zakiya Hanafi, Zakiya Hanafi
The Monster in the Machine tracks the ways in which human beings were defined in contrast to supernatural and demonic creatures during the time of the Scientific Revolution. Zakiya Hanafi recreates scenes of Italian life and culture from the late sixteenth to the early eighteenth centuries to show how monsters were conceptualized at this ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780822325680
ISBN-10: 0822325683
Publication Date: 10/2000
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Duke University Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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