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Natural particulars nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe

Title
Natural particulars [electronic resource] : nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe / edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi.
Publication
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.

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Additional Authors
  • Grafton, Anthony.
  • Siraisi, Nancy G.
  • American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org
Description
xi, 426 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Series Statement
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
Uniform Title
  • Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
  • ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Subject
  • Nature > Congresses
  • Life sciences > Europe > History > Congresses
  • Science, Renaissance > Congresses
Note
  • Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic text and image data.
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.
OCLC
(dli)HEB01588
Title
Natural particulars [electronic resource] : nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe / edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi.
Imprint
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999.
Series
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2012. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
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Available from home with a valid library card and onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Grafton, Anthony.
Siraisi, Nancy G.
American Council of Learned Societies.
Found In:
ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
Other Form:
Original 0262071932 (DLC) 99030932
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