- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 291 p. : ill.; 26 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Renaissance & revolution.
- Subject
- 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