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The Spanish disquiet : the biblical natural philosophy of Benito Arias Montano
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- Creator
- María M. Portuondo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2019
- ©2019
- Physical Details
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- xiv, 426 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780226592268, 022659226X, 9780226609096
- OCLC
- on1051693297
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction -- The challenge ahead -- The Spanish disquiet -- Faith and nature -- The Antwerp polyglot: hints of a new natural philosophy -- Arias Montano castigated -- Nothing new under the sun -- Premises of the Magnum opus -- Montanian hermeneutics of nature and cosmology -- Meteorology, matter theory, and mechanics -- A biblical natural history -- Disciples and detractors -- Expurgated -- Epilogue
Subjects
- Arias Montano, Benito, 1527-1598.
- Biblical scholars -- Spain -- Biography.
- Humanists -- Spain -- Biography.
- Natural history -- Spain -- History -- 16th century.
- Natural history -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Physics -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
- Science -- Spain -- History -- 16th century.
- Bible and science.
- Spain -- Intellectual life -- 1516-1700.