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Natural particulars : nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe / edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nature--Congresses.
- Nature.
- Life sciences--Europe--History--Congresses.
- Life sciences.
- Science, Renaissance--Congresses.
- Science, Renaissance.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 426 p. ) ill. ;
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An informative and accessible introduction to learn all about the most popular sports that take place at the summer Olympics, held in a different country every four years.
- Contents:
- Number, shape and meaning in Pico's Christian Cabala : the upright Tsade, the closed Mem and the gaping jaws of Azazel / Brian P. Copenhaver
- The study of the Timaeus of early Renaissance Italy / James Hankins
- Marsilio Ficino : daemonic mathematics and the hypotenuse of the spirit / Michael J.B. Allen
- Space, light and soul in Francesco Patrizi's Nova de universis philosophia (1591) / Luc Deitz
- The Problemata as a natural philosophical genre / Ann Blair
- The pseudo-Aristotelian problemata and Aristotle's De animalibus in the Renaissance / John Monfasani
- Epistemological problems in Giovanni Mainardi's commentary on Galen's Ars parva / Daniela Mugnai Carrara
- "A diet for barbarians" : introducing Renaissance medicine to tudor England / Vivian Nutton
- From the laboratory to the library : alchemy according to Guglielmo Fabri / Chiara Crisciani
- The homunculus and his forebears : wonders of art and nature / William Newman
- Natural particulars : medical epistemology, practice and the literature of healing springs / Katharine Park
- The formation of a scientific community : natural history in sixteenth-century Italy / Paula Findlen
- Empiricism and community in early modern science and art : some comments on baths, plants and courts / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann.
- Notes:
- Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
- ISBN:
- 9780262293983
- 0262293986
- 9780262274210
- 0262274213
- 9780585292380
- 0585292388
- OCLC:
- 45733507
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb01588 hdl
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