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

Acknowledgments

acknowledgments s The first and biggest thank you must go to Larry Principe.Without his sense of humor and unflinching support, even in the face of literary theory, this project would have looked very different. He should be hailed as a scholar and a gentleman. Thanks to the institutions that have supported this work,in particular the Department of the History of Science,Medicine,and Technology at the Johns Hopkins University. Thanks to the sadly disbanded Center for Research on Culture and Literature at Johns Hopkins,which funded a year of research that came complete with an excellent seminar and demonstrated the strengths of interdisciplinary scholarship.Thanks to Clare Carroll and the other members of her Folger Library seminar,“Genealogies of Britishness,”who have been a source of camaraderie and inspiration since our first meeting. Thanks to the staff at the Folger Library, the British Library, the Bodleian Library, the Huntington Library, Guildhall Library, the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine,Special Collections at the Eisenhower Library at Johns Hopkins, and Special Collections at Northwestern University for their help in finding my “dwarf books.” Thanks to Joan Catapano, Kerry Callahan, and Kristen Ehrenberger and the rest of the editorial staff at the University of Illinois Press who have supported this book since its very early days. Thanks to my family, whose consistent optimism and support have made this, and everything else, possible. Thanks to my friends, who have weathered a great deal of drama and nonsensical babble with good spirits. Thanks especially to Mark, who was there every day and listened to me crow and cry for years with exquisite good humor. Thanks to Jerry, who reminds me every ix day about the unpredictability of nature, and who could not care less about this book unless it guarantees his supply of marshmallow chickens.Thanks to Nikki,around whom nature revolves,and to Thursday,the personality behind the preternatural. x / acknowledgments b o o k s of s e c r e t s ...