UID:
almahu_9949703716102882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9789004310667
Series Statement:
Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, v. 17
Content:
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.
Note:
Preliminary Material /
,
Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European Renaissance /
,
Confabulatory Life /
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The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and Physician /
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A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel's Time /
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Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of Knowledge /
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Liddel's Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of Ethics /
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It's Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel's Helmstedt /
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Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel's Helmstedt /
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Liddel and the University of Aberdeen /
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Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600 /
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Liddel's Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum /
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Reconstructing Liddel's Library at Aberdeen /
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Liddel's Published and Unpublished Works /
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Sources /
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Index of Names /
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Index of Places /
Additional Edition:
Print version: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) Leiden : Brill, 2016 ISBN 9789004310650
Language:
English
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