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1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
Series |
Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions,
2352-1325 ;
volume 17
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History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 17.
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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/ Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Reconstructing Liddel's library at Aberdeen / Jane Pirie -- Liddel's published and unpublished works / Sabine Bertram.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.
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Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613. |
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Mathematicians -- Scotland -- Biography.
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Mathematicians. |
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Scotland. |
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Biographies.
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Physicians -- Scotland -- Biography.
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Physicians. |
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Knowledge, Sociology of -- History.
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Knowledge, Sociology of. |
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History. |
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Scotland -- Intellectual life.
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Intellectual life. |
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Scotland -- Relations -- Germany.
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Relations. |
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Germany. |
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Germany -- Relations -- Scotland.
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Renaissance -- Europe, Northern.
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Renaissance. |
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Northern Europe. |
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Science -- Europe, Northern -- History.
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Science. |
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Medicine -- Europe, Northern -- History.
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Medicine. |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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Added Author |
Omodeo, Pietro Daniel, editor.
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Friedrich, Karin, 1963- editor.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613). Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2016] 9789004310650 (DLC) 2015049883 (OCoLC)928615030 |
ISBN |
9789004310667 (electronic book) |
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9004310665 (electronic book) |
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9789004310650 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
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9004310657 (hardback ; acid-free paper) |
Standard No. |
10.1163/9789004310667 |
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