| Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance Contributor(s): Omodeo (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9004310657 ISBN-13: 9789004310650 Publisher: Brill OUR PRICE: $190.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | History - Mathematics | History & Philosophy |
| Series: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.3" (1.45 lbs) 334 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |