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Record Nr.

UNINA9910149374103321

Titolo

Medicine, natural philosophy, and religion in post-Reformation Scandinavia / / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2017

ISBN

1-317-09819-6

1-315-59471-4

1-317-09820-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 pages) : illustrations

Collana

The History of Medicine in Context

Altri autori (Persone)

CunninghamAndrew

GrellOle Peter

Disciplina

261.5/610948

Soggetti

Lutheran Church - Scandinavia

Medicine - Scandinavia

Physics - Scandinavia

Scandinavia Religion

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. Introduction / Ole Peter Grell -- 2. Philip Melanchthon and his significance for natural philosophy / Andrew Cunningham -- 3. Daniel Sennert and the chymico-atomical reform of medicine / Joel A. Klein -- 4. The changing face of Lutheranism in post-Reformation Denmark / Rasmus H. Dreyer -- 5. After Tycho : Philippist astronomy and cosmology in the work of Brahe's Scandinavian assistants -- 6. The book of nature and the word of God : Lutheran natural philosophy and medicine in early-seventeenth-century Denmark and Norway / Morten Fink-Jensen -- 7. Holger Rosenkrantz, 'the Learned' (1574-1642) / JENS GLEBE-MØLLER -- 8. The significance of monstrous births in Thomas Bartholin's natural philosophy / Signe Nipper Nielsen -- 9. Three seventeenth-century manuals on how and where to study medicine / Ole Peter Grell -- 10. The natural philosophy of Sigfrid Aronus Forsius : between the created world and God / Terhi Kiiskinen -- 11. Johannes Bureus and the prisca astronomia : a Lutheran antiquary engages with the new science / Matthew Norris -- 12. By natural means : magic and medicine in Ericus Johannis Prytz's Magia



incantatrix (1632) / Martin Kjellgren.