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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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Nature -- Congresses.
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Life sciences -- Europe -- History -- Congresses.
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Science, Renaissance -- Congresses.
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Alchemy.
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Natural History.
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History, Early Modern 1451-1600.
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Philosophy.
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History.
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Biology.
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Science.
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Humanities.
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Natural Science Disciplines.
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Biological Science Disciplines.
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Disciplines and Occupations.
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| Alt Name |
Grafton, Anthony.
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Siraisi, Nancy G.
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| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 426 pages) : illustrations. |
| Note |
Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995. |
| Bibliography Note |
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. |
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Print version record. |
| Access |
Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |
| Note |
Text in English, with excerpts in Latin. |
| ISBN |
9780262274210 (electronic bk.) |
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0262274213 (electronic bk.) |
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0585292388 (electronic bk.) |
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9780585292380 (electronic bk.) |
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9780262071932 |
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0262071932 |
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0262071932 (hc. ; alk. paper) |
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0262293986 |
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9780262293983 |
| OCLC # |
45733507 |
| Additional Format |
Print version: Natural particulars. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1999 0262071932 (DLC) 99030932 (OCoLC)41211656 |
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