Natural Particulars Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe

Name: Natural Particulars Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe
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ISBN: 9780262071932

ISBN-10: 0262071932

ISBN-13: 9780262071932

Edition: 2000

Authors: Anthony Grafton, Nancy G. Siraisi, George E. Smith

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This work examines the transformation in ways of studying nature that took place in Western Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries.

Book details

List price: $12.75
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 4/24/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 426
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.782
Language: English



Preface


Contributors


Introduction




Number, Shape, and Meaning in Pico's Christian Cabala: The Upright Tsade, the Closed Mem, and the Gaping Jaws of Azazel




The Study of the Timaeus in Early Renaissance Italy




Marsilio Ficino: Daemonic Mathematics and the Hypotenuse of the Spirit




Space, Light, and Soul in Francesco Patrizi's Nova de Universis Philosophia (1591)




The Problemata as A Natural Philosophical Genre




The Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle's De animalibus in the Renaissance




Epistemological Problems in Giovanni Mainardi's Commentary on Galen's Ars parva




"A Diet for Barbarians": Introducing Renaissance Medicine to Tudor England




From the Laboratory to the Library: Alchemy According to Guglielmo Fabri




The Homunculus and His Forebears: Wonders of Art and Nature




Natural Particulars: Medical Epistemology, Practice, and the Literature of Healing Springs




The Formation of a Scientific Community: Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Italy




Empiricism and Community in Early Modern Science and Art: Some Comments on Baths, Plants, and Courts



Index