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Religious confessions and the sciences in the sixteenth century / edited by Jürgen Helm & Annette Winkelmann.
Library at the Katz Center - Stacks BL240.3 .R45 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in European Judaism 1568-5004 ; v. 1.
- Studies in European Judaism, 1568-5004 ; v. 1
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religion and science--History--16th century--Congresses.
- Religion and science.
- Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789--Congresses.
- Judaism.
- Church history--16th century--Congresses.
- Church history.
- History.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 161 pages ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2001.
- Summary:
- Contrary to the view that relations between religion and the sciences in the sixteenth century were ridden with bitter conflict, the studies here indicate the ways in which religious conviction - Jewish, Roman Catholic or Protestant - and the development of the natural sciences and medicine influenced each other.
- Contents:
- Melanchthon and the tradition of Neoplatonism / Günther Frank
- The Jesuits and the Janus-faced history of natural sciences / Paul Richard Blum
- Science and religion in royal Prussia around 1600 / Michael G. Müller
- Protestant anatomy / Andrew Cunningham
- Religion and medicine : anatomical education at Wittenberg and Ingolstadt / Jürgen Helm
- The influence of Hasdai Crescas's philosophy on some aspects of sixteenth-century philosophy and science / Mauro Zonta
- Language and medicine in the early modern Ottoman empire / Eleazar Gutwirth
- Tradition and innovation : religion , science and Jewish culture between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Gianfranco Miletto
- Jews between profane and sacred science in Renaissance Italy : the case of Abraham Portaleone / Samuel S. Kottek
- Science and religious hermeneutics : the "philosophy" of Rabbi Loew of Prague / Giuseppe Veltri
- The relevance of geography for the Jewish religion / Johann Maier.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9004120459
- OCLC:
- 47869210
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