Renaissance meteorology Pomponazzi to Descartes / Craig Martin.

Author/creator Martin, Craig, 1972-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Descriptionviii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Contents The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [191]-205) and index.
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LCCN 2010051487
ISBN9781421401874 (alk. paper)
ISBN1421401878 (alk. paper)