William Eamon

Regents Professor of History Emeritus, New Mexico State University

William Eamon is regents professor of history emeritus at New Mexico State University. He writes and blogs about the history of early modern science and medicine. His latest book is The Professor of Secrets: Mystery, Medicine and Alchemy in Renaissance Italy (2010).

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Six centuries of secularism

When the first ‘how-to’ books began to explain the way the world worked, they paved the way for science and secularism

William Eamon