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1 online resource (xi, 426 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
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Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology.
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| Note |
Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Nature -- Congresses.
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Nature. |
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Life sciences -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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Life sciences. |
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Europe. |
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History. |
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Science, Renaissance -- Congresses.
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Science, Renaissance. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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History.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Grafton, Anthony.
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Siraisi, Nancy G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Natural particulars. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1999 0262071932 (DLC) 99030932 (OCoLC)41211656 |
| ISBN |
0585292388 (electronic book) |
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9780585292380 (electronic book) |
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0262071932 (hc. ; alkaline paper) |
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