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1 online resource (xi, 426 pages) : illustrations |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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| 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 |
| Notes |
Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Text in English, with excerpts in Latin |
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Print version record |
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Nature -- Congresses
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Life sciences -- Europe -- History -- Congresses
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Science, Renaissance -- Congresses
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Alchemy.
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Natural history.
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Philosophy.
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History.
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Biology.
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Science.
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Humanities.
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Physical sciences.
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Life sciences.
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Nature
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Alchemy
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Natural History
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600
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Philosophy
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History
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Biology
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Science
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Humanities
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Natural Science Disciplines
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Biological Science Disciplines
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Disciplines and Occupations
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alchemy.
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natural sciences.
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philosophy.
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history (discipline)
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biology.
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sciences (philosophy)
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humanities.
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physical sciences.
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biological sciences.
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science (modern discipline)
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SCIENCE -- History.
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Science
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Physical sciences
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Philosophy
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Natural history
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Humanities
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History
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Biology
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Alchemy
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Life sciences
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Nature
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Science, Renaissance
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Europe
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proceedings (reports)
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Conference papers and proceedings
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History
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Grafton, Anthony
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Siraisi, Nancy G
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| ISBN |
9780262274210 |
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0262274213 |
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0585292388 |
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9780585292380 |
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9780262071932 |
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0262071932 |
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0262293986 |
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9780262293983 |
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