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Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science
Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science
Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science
Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science

Fakes!? Hoaxes, Counterfeits and Deception in Early Modern Science

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Beretta, Marco, and Maria Conforti, eds., 2014 xv + 280pp., illus., 6 x 9, gatefold paperback


Table of Contents

Introduction v
by Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti

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 Index of Names

Notes on Contributors