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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. Edited By Marco Beretta And Maria Conforti. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.

Author

Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti

Publisher

Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications/USA, a division of Watson Publishing International LLC

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780881354959

Subjects

Computer Science, Science, Reference