Inside the Stargazer's Palace

Author: Violet Moller

British Isles | United Kingdom, Great Britain | Netherlands | Denmark | c 1500 to c 1600 | c 1600 to c 1700 | European history | British & Irish history | Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 | History of science | Astronomy, space & time | Astronomical observation: observatories, equipment & methods | Cosmology & the universe

Published on 6^th June 2024 by Oneworld Publications in the United Kingdom.

Hardback | 304 pages
234mm x 153mm | 0g

Enter the mysterious world of sixteenth-century science, where astronomers and alchemists shared laboratories'A scintillating journey into a world where discoveries rip through doctrine like meteors. There is magic in these pages.' Daisy Dunn, author of The Missing ThreadIn 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 glistening brass instruments and leather-bound tomes. The line between the natural and supernatural remained porous, yet to be defined.

From the icy Danish observatory of Tycho Brahe, to the smoky, sulphur-stained workshop of John Dee, Violet Moller tours the intellectual heart of early European science. Exploring its rich, multidisciplinary culture, Inside the Stargazer’s Palace reveals a dazzling forgotten world, where all knowledge, no matter how arcane, could be pursued in good faith.