Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe SS_Gift_Guide award-winning author of The Serpent

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Inside the Stargazer's Palace: The Transformation of Science in 16th-Century Europe SS_Gift_Guide award-winning author of The SerpentEnter the mysterious world of sixteenth century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories. In 1543, Nicolaus Copernicus declared the earth revolved around the Sun, overturning centuries of scholastic presumption. A new age was coming into view one guided by observation, technology and logic. But omens and elixirs did not disappear from the sixteenth century laboratory. Charms and potions could still be found nestled between