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- Description
- 1 online resource (xi, 426 p.) : ill.
- Series Statement
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
- Uniform Title
- Natural particulars (Online)
- Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
- Note
- Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 5-6, 1995.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language (note)
- Text in English, with excerpts in Latin.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 99030932
- OCLC
- ssj0000208663
- 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.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
- Language
Text in English, with excerpts in Latin.
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- Added Author
Grafton, Anthony.
Siraisi, Nancy G.