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Natural particulars : nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe
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- Creator
- edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi
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- English
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- Publication
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- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [1999]
- ©1999
- Physical Details
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- xi, 426 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780262071932, 0262293986, 9780262274210, 0262071932, 9780585292380, 0585292388, 9780262293983, 0262274213
- OCLC
- ocm45733507, ocm41211656
- Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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