books.google.co.uk - 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 (1559) conveys a fascination with tricks and illusions that makes it a work difficult for historians of science to take seriously. Yet, according...http://books.google.co.uk/books/about/Science_and_the_secrets_of_nature.html?id=rB3cIVVq-YUC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareScience and the secrets of nature
