Books of Secrets: Natural Philosophy in England, 1550-1600

Index

195 index Admirable Force of Art and Nature, The, 52 Albertus Magnus, 4–5, 11, 21, 57 Alchemy, 4, 35, 44 85, 153; and gendered knowledge, 98–99, 119; and pseudo-Roger Bacon, 53–56 Allde, Edward, 17, 19–22, 52, 58–59, 95 antipathy, 6, 61–62, 84–88, 91, 93, 156 Aristotle’s Masterpiece, 32–34 Astrology, 1, 37, 70–71, 101; in The Secrets of Albertus Magnus, 75–78, 85; in Treasurie of Hidden Secrets, 121–22 audience. See readers authority, 1, 3–5, 32–35, 48–51, 56–57, 72, 74, 101, 103–5, 120–22, 140–41, 148–51 Bacon, Roger, 36–37 Barley, William, 71–73 Bongay, Friar, 42, 80, 87 Book of Knowledge, 1, 32, 35 Charlewood, John, 20–21, 23, 26 cheap print, 2, 15–16, 18, 31, 157 Copeland, William, 10–13, 16, 24, 67–69 Cornucopiae or divers secrets, 4; and comparisons with Albertus Magnus, 10, 59–94; and printer strategies, 71–73; and sympathy and antipathy, 87–88; and textual structure, 65–66, 82–84, 89–92 Dee, John, 16, 35, 38, 42, 57 distillation, 54–57, 98, 119–20 Emerald Table, 48–49, 53 Erra Pater, 1, 32–33, 35 femininity, 7–8, 75–77, 96–97, 98–104, 113, 116–17, 124–25 Franciscans, 73–75 Greene, Robert, 6, 22–29, 38–40, 57 honorable historie of friar Bacon and friar Bongay, The, 6, 38–47; and authority, 44–45; and nationalism, 45–47; and relationship between art and magic, 42–47; and secrets and gender, 42–44; and systems of sympathy in, 41 horses, in early modern England, 127–31; and gentlemen, 131–32; and training, 144–47 Hortulanus, 48–49, 53 How to chuse, ride, traine, and diet both Hunting-horses, With all the secrets thereto belonging discovered: an Arte never here-to-fore written by 196 / index any Author, 126–55; audience characteristics , 133–35, 137–39; authority in, 140–42, 150–49, 152; comparison to Mirror of Alchimy, 139–43; relationship to secrecy, 135–37; recipes, 144–45; veterinary knowledge within, 148–50 Jaggard, William, 14–17, 60, 67, 69–72, 78 Jones, Richard, 17–21, 95–96, 102, 106–8, 124 King, John, 10–11, 16 lodestone, 75–76, 79, 89–91 magic, 40, 42–43, 45–47, 50, 58, 74 Markham, Gervase, 4, 8, 21; and constructions of masculinity, 127, 134–35, 142–47, 153; and constructions of readers, 132–35, 137–39; relationship to other books of secrets, 139–45 masculinity, 8, 12, 127, 134–35, 142–47, 153 medicine, 4, 7, 11, 14, 74, 98, 100, 105–6; and human, 34, 74, 105–7, 110–17, 120–21; and humoral, 33–34, 115, 118– 19; and recipes, 110–15, 118, 144–46; and veterinary, 112, 117, 148–50 Mirror of Alchimy, The, 3–4, 7; and comparisons How to chuse, ride, diet, and train, both Hunting-horses and running Horses, 139–43; and constructions of authority, 48–51; and good readers of, 51–54; and models for natural world, 54–55; and obscurity and secrecy in, 51–53; and practical knowledge, 55–56; and pseudo-Roger Bacon, 47–50, 91, 93 Partridge, John, 4, 95–96, 103–4, 108 Pliny, 34, 51, 57, 93 print marketplace, 9–31 printer strategies, and within Albertus Magnus, 66–71, 92; and within Cornucopiae or divers secrets, 71–72, 79–82, 92; and within Treasurie of commodious conceits and hidden secrets, 100–104; and within the Treasurie of hidden secrets, 106–8; within The Widowes Treasure, 104–6 pseudo-Bacon, Roger, 3–4, 27–28, 35, 47–58 readers, 2, 5, 7–8, 31, 52–56, 62, 72–78, 83–84, 93, 107–8, 156–57; and female, 7, 20, 98–99, 114–20, 125; and male, 8, 127, 131–35, 137–38, 141–42 reading, intensive, 52–53, 64–65 Roberts, James, 20–21, 187 Secrets of Albertus Magnus, The, 3, 7,9, 29, 51; and astrology, 77–78; and comparisons with Cornucopiae, or divers secrets, 10, 59–94; and printers and printer relationships, 10–17, 61; and readers and experience, 72–79, 94; and sympathy and antipathy, 84–87; and textual structure, 60–72, 79–82, 88–92 Seres, William, 13–14, 59–61 Stationers’ Company, 6, 9–31 sympathy, 61–62, 84–86, 93, 156 Treasurie of commodious conceits and hidden secrets, The, 7, 9, 19, 95–96; and comparison with Treasurie of Hidden Secrets, 104–12; and comparison with...