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Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / Craig Martin.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Martin, Craig, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meteorology--History--17th century.
- Meteorology.
- Physics--Philosophy.
- Physics.
- Science, Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (224 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge
- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology
- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology
- The chymistry of weather
- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism
- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-205) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 4, 2013).
- ISBN:
- 1-4214-0244-0
- OCLC:
- 794700393
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