Natural particulars : nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe / / edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi

• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©1999
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xi, 426 p. ) : ill.
• Disciplina: 509/.4/09031
• Soggetto topico: Nature; Life sciences - Europe - History; Science, Renaissance
• Altri autori: GraftonAnthony SiraisiNancy G
• Note generali: Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Natural particulars
• ISBN: 0-262-29398-6; 0-262-27421-3; 0-585-29238-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 996248182103316
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno
• Serie: Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.; ACLS Humanities E-Book.