Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) : networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance / edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo in collaboration with Karin Friedrich.

Publication Info. Leiden : Brill, [2016]
©2016

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, 2352-1325 ; volume 17
History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 17.
Summary "This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural and institutional frame of the northern European Renaissance, as well as a reconstruction of his scholarly networks and of the scientific debates in the time of post-Copernican astronomy, Melanchthonian humanism and Paracelsian controversies. Contributors are: Sabine Bertram, Duncan Cockburn, Laura Di Giammatteo, Mordechai Feingold, Karin Friedrich, Elizabeth Harding, John Henry, Richard Kirwan, Jane Pirie, Jonathan Regier"--Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Science and medicine in the humanistic networks of the northern European Renaissance / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Confabulatory life / Mordechai Feingold -- The European career of a Scottish mathematician and physician / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- A pragmatic aspect of polymathy: the alliance of mathematics and medicine in Liddel's time / John Henry -- Logic, mathematics and natural light: Liddel on the foundations of knowledge / Jonathan Regier -- Liddel's Ars Medica (1607): the effective method as foundation of medical knowledge and of ethics / Laura Di Giammatteo -- It's who you know: scholarly networks in Liddel's Helmstedt -- Home-styling matters: symbolic dimensions of the professorial household at Liddel's Helmstedt / Elizabeth Harding -- Liddel and the University of Aberdeen / Duncan Cockburn -- Liddel on the geo-heliocentric controversy: his letter to Brahe from 1600 / Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier -- Liddel's Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Reconstructing Liddel's library at Aberdeen / Jane Pirie -- Liddel's published and unpublished works / Sabine Bertram.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613.
Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613.
Mathematicians -- Scotland -- Biography.
Mathematicians.
Scotland.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Physicians -- Scotland -- Biography.
Physicians.
Knowledge, Sociology of -- History.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
History.
Scotland -- Intellectual life.
Intellectual life.
Scotland -- Relations -- Germany.
Relations.
Germany.
Germany -- Relations -- Scotland.
Renaissance -- Europe, Northern.
Renaissance.
Northern Europe.
Science -- Europe, Northern -- History.
Science.
Medicine -- Europe, Northern -- History.
Medicine.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Biographies.
Added Author Omodeo, Pietro Daniel, editor.
Friedrich, Karin, 1963- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613). Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004310650 (DLC) 2015049883 (OCoLC)928615030
ISBN 9789004310667 (electronic book)
9004310665 (electronic book)
9789004310650 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
9004310657 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
Standard No. 10.1163/9789004310667