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Title Science and the arts in the Renaissance / edited by John W. Shirley and F. David Hoeniger.

Publication Info. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; London : Associated University Presses, 1985.

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 Moore Stacks  NX180.S3 S35 1985    Available  ---
Description 220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Note Based an papers presented at a symposium held at the Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oct. 1978, Co-sponsored the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology.
"Folger books."
Based an papers presented at a symposium held at the Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oct. 1978, Co- sponsored the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology.
Bibliography Includes bibliographies.
Contents Science and the arts in the Renaissance : the search for truth and certainty, old and new / Alistair C. Crombie -- Medicine, philosophy, and humanism in Renaissance Italy / Jerome L. Bylebyl -- Art and science : the Paracelsian vision / P.M. Rattansi -- The science of sound and musical practice / Claude V. Palisca -- Science and navigation in Renaissance England / John W. Shirley -- The involvement of artists in Renaissance science / James Ackerman -- How plants and animals were studied in the mid-sixteenth century / F. David Hoeniger -- The organism as a symbol : an innovation of art / Philip C. Ritterbush -- The Renaissance development of scientific illustration / Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. -- Diagrams and dynamics : mathemetical perspectives on Edgerton's thesis / Michael S. Mahoney.
Subject Science and the arts.
Science and the arts.
Arts, Renaissance.
Arts, Renaissance.
Science, Renaissance.
Science, Renaissance.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Conference papers and proceedings.
Added Author Shirley, John W., 1908-1988.
Hoeniger, F. David.
Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Other Form: Online version: Science and the arts in the Renaissance. Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; London : Associated University Presses, 1985 (OCoLC)567779551
ISBN 091801669X
9780918016690