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The Traveling Anatomist : Nicolaus Steno and the Intersection of Disciplines in Early Modern Science.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Castel-Branco, Nuno.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Steno, Nicolaus, 1638-1686.
- Steno, Nicolaus.
- Steno, Nicolaus, 1638-1686--Travel--Europe.
- Europe--Intellectual life--17th century.
- Europe.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (401 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- Reevaluates Nicolaus Steno's contributions to anatomy and early modern science, examining his interdisciplinary interests in their historical context.Nicolaus Steno (1638-1686) was a renowned anatomist in his lifetime.
- Contents:
- Introduction : the various travels of Nicolaus Steno
- The uses of chaos, or, What did Nicolaus Steno know?
- The making of a scholarly anatomist
- Dissecting with numbers, machines, and mixtures
- In the cradle of the Académie des Sciences
- Anatomy and mathematics at the Medici court
- Thinking the earth with the body
- Anatomy of a conversion
- Epilogue.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-226-84228-2
- OCLC:
- 1534314653
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