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Intro -- Preface -- References -- Acknowledgements -- List of Topics -- About the Editors -- About the Section Editors -- Contributors -- A -- Absolute and Relative Motion -- Introduction -- Detailed Description -- Metaphysics -- Epistemology -- Cross-References -- References -- Absolute Space in Natural Philosophy -- Synonyms -- Definition/Introduction -- Newton and Absolute Space -- Cross-References -- References -- Acoustics -- Actio in distans -- Action at a Distance in Early Modern Natural Philosophy -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Action at a Distance in the Renaissance Revival of Natural Magic -- Action at a Distance in English Natural Philosophy Before Newton -- Newton and Action at a Distance -- Newtonianism and Action at a Distance -- Cross-References -- References -- Acuity -- Adamic Language -- Aesthetics -- Definition/Introduction -- General Introduction -- The Preliminary Concepts of Renaissance and Early Modern Theory of Art -- Idea -- Disegno -- Perspective -- Color´s Secondary Function -- Verisimilitude -- Decorum -- Genius -- Central Authors of Art Theory in the Renaissance -- Leon Battista Alberti (1404-1472) -- The Middle Generation of Rationalist Art Theory: Piero Della Francesca (1415-1492) and Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528) -- Leonardo Da Vinci (1452-1519) -- Gian Paolo Lomazzo (1538-1592) -- Protestant Architectural Theory: Sebastiano Serlio (1475-1554) and Philibert De L´Orme (ca. 1510-1570) (1982) -- The Seventeenth Century -- The Proliferation of the Art Academies -- The Relation to Antiquity -- Ut Pictura Poesis -- The Beginning of Art Criticism in the Academies -- Rationalist and Scientific Influences -- The Importance of De Piles (1635-1709) -- The Eighteenth Century -- The Establishment of the Profession of the Art Critic -- Baumgarten and the Initiation of Aesthetic Discourse.
Kant´s Critique of the Power of Judgment, 1790 (Kant 2013) -- The Development of the Category of `Taste´ -- Aesthetic Education -- Cross-References -- References -- Afterlife -- Age of the Earth, The -- Definition -- Introduction -- Cycle and Events -- Metaphors of Time -- Mechanism and the Formation of the Earth -- Towards a Linear History of the Earth -- Historical Narratives and the Birth of Stratigraphy -- Ages and Epochs of Nature -- Estimations of the Age of the Earth -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- Agnesi, Maria Gaetana -- Introduction -- Infant Prodigy -- An Effective Popularizer of Scientific Topics -- A Passionate Philanthropist -- References -- Air Pressure -- Alchemical Images -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Types of Alchemical Imagery -- Visual Imagery in Western Alchemical Manuscripts -- Aurora Consurgens (Dawn Rising, 1420s) -- Das Buch der heiligen Dreifaltigkeit (The Book of the Holy Trinity, 1410-1419) -- Some Manuscripts in the Age of Print -- Alchemical Imagery in Print -- Book of the Art of Distillation (1500) -- New Pearl of Great Price (1546) -- Rose-Garden of the Philosophers (1550) -- Pandora, That Is, the Noblest Gift of God (1582) -- Amphitheatre of Eternal Wisdom (1595/1608/1609/1653) -- Atalanta Fleeing (1617-1618) -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- Alchemical Laboratories -- Introduction -- Etymology and Early Depictions -- Laboratory Notebooks, Archaeology, and Reconstruction -- The Proliferation of Laboratory Culture -- Concluding Remarks -- Cross-References -- References -- Alchemy -- Alchemy, Chemistry, and Metallurgy -- Synonyms -- Definition/Introduction -- Alchemy, Chemistry, and Metallurgy -- Early Modern Matter Theory and the Metals -- At the Mines and Smelting Works -- Metals as Species -- References -- Alteration.
Amo, Anton Wilhelm, an African Philosopher in Eighteenth-Century Germany -- Introduction -- The Narrative of Anton Wilhelm Amo -- References -- Amphibians -- Anatomical Demonstration -- Anatomy -- Anatomy in the Early Modern Period -- Introduction -- The Rise of Dissections -- Seeing and Cutting -- Mechanics and Solids -- An Anthropological Knowledge -- Cross-References -- References -- Anatomy Theaters and Anatomy Teaching -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- The Anatomical Demonstration -- Anatomical Theaters -- Cross-References -- References -- Animal Dissection -- Animal Experimentation -- Animal Spirits: Bridging Mind and Body in Early Modern Philosophy -- Synonyms -- Definition/Introduction -- Ancient and Medieval Sources -- Early Modern Transformations of the Animal Spirit -- Vital and Mechanical Philosophy -- Animal Spirits in Magic -- Legacy -- Cross-References -- References -- Animalis -- Animals in Early Modern Thought -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Renaissance: The Scale of Nature -- A Beastly Hypothesis? -- Direct Challenges to Descartes -- Non-Cartesian Approaches -- The Ethics of Eating -- Conclusion -- Cross-References -- References -- Animism -- Anne Finch, Women Philosophers -- Annotation -- Antimathematicism in Early Modern Philosophy and Science -- Introduction -- Antimathematicism -- Cross-References -- References -- Apes -- Synonyms -- Related Topics -- Introduction -- Thinking About Apes in Early Modern Europe -- Cross-References -- References -- Apparatus -- Appetite in Early Modern Science and Medicine -- Introduction -- Appetite in Antiquity -- Appetite in Early Modern Medicine and Philosophy -- Appetite in Buffon´s Natural History -- The Physiology of Appetite: Mechanists and Vitalists -- Cross-References -- References -- Appetition, Appetite -- Apprenticeship, Guilds, and Craft Knowledge.
Introduction: Learning on the Shop Floor -- Apprenticeship and Guilds -- The Guild Debate -- Guild Landscapes -- References -- Aristotelian Ethics in the Early-Modern Period -- Introduction -- Early-Modern Aristotelian Ethics -- The Structure of Early-Modern Aristotelian Treatises in Ethics -- The Preliminary Questions -- Happiness -- The Principles of Human Actions, Passions, and Virtue -- References -- Aristotelian Logic -- Ars memorativa -- Ars memoriae -- Art -- Art of Memory -- Synonyms -- Definition -- The Art of Memory -- Cross-References -- References -- Art of Persuasion -- Artificial Languages -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Intellectual Background -- Artificial Language Schemes in England -- Leibniz and Characteristica Universalis -- Cross-References -- References -- Artisanal Knowledge and Craftsmanship -- Introduction: The Politics of Artisanal Knowledge -- The Practices of Artisanal Knowledge -- The Epistemology of Artisanal Knowledge -- References -- Artisans -- Artisanship -- Artists -- Assemblage -- Astrology in the Early Modern Period: Practices and Concepts -- Introduction -- Astrology in Late Medieval Scholastic Culture -- Renaissance Astrology -- Lutheran Astrology -- Philosophical Reform in the Early Seventeenth Century: Johannes Kepler and Francis Bacon -- Popular Error and Political Order -- Reinventing and Reforming Astrology in the Seventeenth Century -- The Death of Astrology? -- Cross-References -- References -- Austen, Ralph -- Introduction -- Austen´s Work and Networking -- Austen´s Projects of Natural History -- Cross-References -- References -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- Authors -- Automata in the Early Modern Period -- Definition -- A Brief History -- Automata, Philosophy, and Physiology -- Descartes and Automata -- The Spread of the Automata Comparison -- The Rejection of the Automaton Comparison.
The Spiritual Automaton -- Cross-References -- References -- Primary Sources -- Secondary Sources -- Autopsy -- B -- Bacon´s Art of Discovery -- Overview -- The Problem of Discovery -- The Art of Discovery -- An Unfinished Project and Its Followers -- Cross-References -- References -- Baconian Natural and Experimental History -- Overview -- Francis Bacon´s Design for a ``Historie natural and experimental´´ (Historia Naturalis et Experimentalis) -- Baconian Natural and Experimental Histories in England and on the Continent -- Cross-References -- References -- Baconianism and the Royal Society -- Overview -- Natural and Experimental Histories -- The Creative Value of Baconian Experiments -- Speculation, Idolatry, Dogmantism: Baconianism as a Form of Medicina Mentis -- Collaborative Science, the New Atlantis, and the Advancement of Learning -- Cross-References -- References -- Balsam -- Synonyms -- Definition -- Heritage and Rupture with the Tradition -- Cross-References -- References -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- Balsamum -- Barometers: History and Development in Experimental Philosophy -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Barometers: Early History and Development -- Cross-References -- References -- Bayle and Early Modern Free Thought -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Biography -- Moral Rationalism and Tolerance -- Reason and Faith -- Atheism -- Conclusion -- References -- Beasts -- Becher, Johann Joachim -- Introduction -- Life -- Influences -- Cross-References -- References -- Primary Literature -- Secondary Literature -- Beeckman, Isaac -- Synonyms -- Introduction -- Life -- Sources -- Philosophy -- Physics -- Music -- Senses -- Theology -- Cross-References -- References -- Biological Classifications -- Biological Nomenclature -- Birds, Natural History of -- Introduction -- Birdsong -- Flight -- References.
Blood: From Humor to Hematology.
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