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Natural particulars nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe / edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi.
| Other author | Grafton, Anthony. |
| Other author | Siraisi, Nancy G. |
| Other author | American Council of Learned Societies. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, |
| Description | xi, 426 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from MIT Press Direct to Open Backfile STEAM Monographs D2O |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from ACLS Humanities E-Book |
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| Subjects |
| Series | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. ^A464634 |
| 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. |
| General 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 restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Language | Text in English, with excerpts in Latin. |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 99030932 |
| ISBN | 9780262071932 (hc. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0262071932 (hc. : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |