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Irreverent, often funny and always surprising, On the Cusp of Greatness is Mark Waddells first collection of poetry - filled with lively, spiky writing that seems to have just walked off the stage, accompanied by the authors own hare-brained illustrations. Sticking two mischievous fingers up to power and the way things are supposed to be, Mark tackles space travel and sellotape with a motion of his pen, arctic blizzards and suicidal possums with another, whilst generally waving the flag for pleasure and all that is good in the world. Readers will learn of the redemptive power of flight, why...

From the recovery of ancient ritual magic at the height of the Renaissance to the ignominious demise of alchemy at the dawn of the Enlightenment, Mark A. Waddell explores the rich and complex ways that premodern people made sense of their world. He describes a time when witches flew through the dark of night to feast on the flesh of unbaptized infants, magicians conversed with angels or struck pacts with demons, and astrologers cast the horoscopes of royalty. Ground-breaking discoveries changed the way that people understood the universe while, in laboratories and coffee houses, philosophers...

Jesuit Science and the End of Nature s Secrets explores how several prominent Jesuit naturalists - including NiccolA Cabeo, Athanasius Kircher, and Gaspar Schott - tackled the problem of occult or insensible causation in the seventeenth century. The search for hidden causes lay at the heart of the early modern study of nature, and included phenomena such as the activity of the magnet, the marvelous powers ascribed to certain animals and plants, and the hidden, destructive forces churning in the depths of the Earth. While this was a project embraced by most early modern naturalists, however,...