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Renaissance and revolution : humanists, scholars, craftsmen, and natural philosophers in early modern Europe

Title
Renaissance and revolution : humanists, scholars, craftsmen, and natural philosophers in early modern Europe / edited and introduced by J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James.
Publication
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Details

Additional Authors
  • Field, Judith Veronica.
  • James, Frank A. J. L., 1955-
Description
xv, 291 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
Alternative Title
Renaissance & revolution.
Subject
  • Science, Renaissance
  • Science > Europe > History > 18th century
  • Technology > Europe > History > 18th century
Note
  • Spine title: Renaissance & revolution.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index.
Contents
Greek science in the sixteenth-century Renaissance / Vivian Nutton -- 'With the rules of life and an enema' : Leonardo Fioravanti's medical primitivism / William Eamon -- Cutting edge of a revolution? : medicine and natural history near the shores of the North Sea / Harold J. Cook -- Science and technology during the Scientific Revolution : an empirical approach / Richard S. Westfall -- Mathematics and the craft of painting : Piero della Francesa and perspective / J. V. Field -- Johannes Hevelius and the visual language of astronomy / Mary G. Winkler and Albert Van Helden -- Mathematical sciences and military technology : the Ordnance Office in the reign of Charles II / Frances Willmoth -- Between ars and philosophia naturalis: reflections on the historiography of early modern mechanics / Alan Gabbey -- Conscience of Robert Boyle : functionalism, 'dysfunctionalism' and the task of historical understanding / Michael Hunter -- Clandestine Stoic concepts in mechanical philosophy : the problem of electrical attraction / Gad Freudenthal -- Alchemy in the Newtonian circle : personal acquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newton's alchemy / Karen Figala and Ulrich Petzold -- Newton's subtle matter : the Opticks queries and the mechanical philosophy / R.W. Home -- Huygens's reaction to Newton's gravitational theory / Roberto De A. Martins -- Reception of Newton's Opticks in Italy / Paolo Casini -- Marsigli, Benedict XIV and the Bolognese Institute of Sciences / Giorgio Dragoni
Call Number
JFF 96-5163
ISBN
0521434270 (hardback)
LCCN
93006624
OCLC
27431214
Title
Renaissance and revolution : humanists, scholars, craftsmen, and natural philosophers in early modern Europe / edited and introduced by J.V. Field and Frank A.J.L. James.
Imprint
Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-272) and index.
Added Author
Field, Judith Veronica.
James, Frank A. J. L., 1955-
Added Title
Renaissance & revolution.
Research Call Number
JFF 96-5163
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