Renaissance meteorology : : Pomponazzi to Descartes / / Craig Martin.

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Place / Publishing House:Baltimore : : Johns Hopkins University Press,, 2011.
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (224 pages) :; illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge
  • The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology
  • The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology
  • The chymistry of weather
  • Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism
  • Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.