Fakes!? : hoaxes, counterfeits, and deception in early modern science / edited by Marco Beretta and Maria Conforti.

Contributor Beretta, Marco, editor.

ImprintSagamore Beach : Science History Publications/USA, 2014.

Descriptionxv, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Note: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.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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