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| Genre/Form: | Electronic books Congresses |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Natural particulars. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1999 (DLC) 99030932 (OCoLC)41211656 |
| Material Type: | Conference publication, Internet resource |
| Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anthony Grafton; Nancy G Siraisi |
| ISBN: | 0585292388 9780585292380 |
| OCLC Number: | 45733507 |
| Notes: | Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995. |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xi, 426 p.) : ill. |
| Contents: | 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. |
| Series Title: | Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi. |
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