Melanchthon and the tradition of Neoplatonism / Günther Frank -- The Jesuits and the Janus-faced history of natural sciences / Paul Richard Blum -- Science and religion in royal Prussia around 1600 / Michael G. Müller -- Protestant anatomy / Andrew Cunningham -- Religion and medicine : anatomical education at Wittenberg and Ingolstadt / Jürgen Helm -- The influence of Hasdai Crescas's philosophy on some aspects of sixteenth-century philosophy and science / Mauro Zonta -- Language and medicine in the early modern Ottoman empire / Eleazar Gutwirth -- Tradition and innovation : religion, science and Jewish culture between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries / Gianfranco Miletto -- Jews between profane and sacred science in Renaissance Italy : the case of Abraham Portaleone / Samuel S. Kottek -- Science and religious hermeneutics : the "philosophy" of Rabbi Loew of Prague / Giuseppe Veltri -- The relevance of geography for the Jewish religion / Johann Maier
Summary
This volume discusses the ways in which religious conviction and the development of the natural sciences and medicine influenced each other in the 16th century
