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Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) : networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance / edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo in collaboration with Karin Friedrich.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; Volume 17.
- Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, 2352-1325 ; Volume 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematicians--Scotland--Biography.
- Mathematicians.
- Physicians--Scotland--Biography.
- Physicians.
- Knowledge, Sociology of--History.
- Knowledge, Sociology of.
- Science--Europe, Northern--History.
- Science.
- Renaissance--Europe, Northern.
- Renaissance.
- Medicine--Europe, Northern--History.
- Medicine.
- Scotland--Intellectual life.
- Scotland.
- Scotland--Relations--Germany.
- Germany--Relations--Scotland.
- Germany.
- Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613.
- Liddel, Duncan.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (334 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural and institutional frame of the northern European Renaissance, as well as a reconstruction of his scholarly networks and of the scientific debates in the time of post-Copernican astronomy, Melanchthonian humanism and Paracelsian controversies. Contributors are: Sabine Bertram, Duncan Cockburn, Laura Di Giammatteo, Mordechai Feingold, Karin Friedrich, Elizabeth Harding, John Henry, Richard Kirwan, Jane Pirie, Jonathan Regier.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European Renaissance / Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- Confabulatory Life / Mordechai Feingold
- The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and Physician / Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel’s Time / John Henry
- Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of Knowledge / Jonathan Regier
- Liddel’s Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of Ethics / Laura Di Giammatteo
- It’s Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel’s Helmstedt / Richard Kirwan
- Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel’s Helmstedt / Elizabeth Harding
- Liddel and the University of Aberdeen / Duncan Cockburn
- Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600 / Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier
- Liddel’s Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum / Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- Reconstructing Liddel’s Library at Aberdeen / Jane Pirie
- Liddel’s Published and Unpublished Works / Sabine Bertram
- Sources / Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- Index of Names / Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- Index of Places / Pietro Daniel Omodeo.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-31066-5
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004310667 DOI
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