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Looking up : science and observation in the early modern period / edited by Jason M. Kelly.
- Title
- Looking up : science and observation in the early modern period / edited by Jason M. Kelly.
- Publication
- New York : Legas, c2002.
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- Additional Authors
- Kelly, Jason M.
- Description
- 141 p.; 23 cm.
- Series Statement
- Language, media & education studies ; v. 24
- Uniform Title
- Language, media & education studies ; 24.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: Charles Peirce, semiotics, and the history of science / Jason M. Kelly and Bill Pencak -- Looking up from Adam's fall: the new astronomy and the quest for a new Eden in the writings of the English scientific promoter John Wilkins / Theresa Neumann -- Staging science: experimentation and authority in early 17th century drama / Sandra Logan -- Luminaries in medicine: Richard Mead, James Gibbs, and solar and lunar effects on the human body in early modern England / Anna Marie Roos -- The hermetic and scientific traditions in Emanuele Tesauro's The Aristotelian telescope / Cristina Farronato -- When what does not exist may be useful: the evolution of Franz Anton Mesmer's theory of animal magnetism from an orthodox explication of human tidal flux to a heterodox practice of charismatic healing / Nancy A. Mcloughlin -- An American contribution: Jedidiah Morse, Dobson's Encyclopaedia and the shaping of American identity / Charles N. Yood.
- ISBN
- 1894508378
- LCCN
- ^^2002489298
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library