By explaining how to sire multicolored horses, produce nuts without shells, and create an egg the size of a human head, Giambattista Della Porta's Natural Magic

A fresh look at the role of astrology and alchemy in Renaissance thinking and everyday life.

'This book is a page-turner - endlessly fascinating, totally compelling, and incredibly informative. I could not put it down.''rory Freedman, Co-author of New Y

Provides an introduction to the Fibonacci sequence and its presence in the animal world, including the equiangular spiral of a sundial shell, a parrot's beak, a