Science and Thought in the Fifteenth Century : : Studies in the History of Medicine and Surgery Natural and Mathematical Science Philosophy and Politics / / Lynn Thorndike.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Columbia University Press eBook-Package Archive 1898-1999
• VerfasserIn: Thorndike, Lynn,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [1929]; ©1929
• Year of Publication: 1929
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (410 p.)

Consists of special studies in the science and thought of the 15th century based on manuscript and unpublished materials. Also follows more specialized studies such as medicine, law, surgery, astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION: THE STUDY OF WESTERN SCIENCE OF THE FOURTEENTH AND FIFTEENTH CENTURIES1 -- CHAPTER II. MEDICINE VERSUS LAW AT FLORENCE1 -- CHAPTER III. THE MANUSCRIPT TEXT OF THE CIRURGIA OF LEONARD OF BERTIPAGLIA1 -- CHAPTER IV. A PRACTICA CIRURGIE ASCRIBED TO JOHN BRACCIA OF MILAN OR TO PETER OF TOSSIGNANO -- CHAPTER V. SOME MINOR MEDICAL WORKS WRITTEN AT FLORENCE1 -- CHAPTER VI. A FIFTEENTH-CENTURY AUTOPSY1 -- CHAPTER VII. NICHOLAS OF CUSA AND THE TRIPLE MOTION OF THE EARTH -- CHAPTER VIII. PEURBACH AND REGIOMONTANUS: THEIR GREAT REPUTATION RE-EXAMINED -- CHAPTER IX. THE ARITHMETIC OF JEHAN ADAM, A.D. 1475 1 -- CHAPTER X. NICCOLÒ DA FOLIGNO'S TREATISES ON IDEAS: A STUDY OF SCHOLASTICISM AND PLATONISM IN THE FIFTEENTH CENTURY -- CHAPTER XI. SOME RENAISSANCE MORALISTS AND PHILOSOPHERS1 -- CHAPTER XII. THE DE CONSTITUTIONE MUNDI OF JOHN MICHAEL ALBERT OF CARRARA AND ITS RELATION TO SIMILAR TREATISES1 -- CHAPTER XII. LIPPUS BRA NDOLINUS DE COM PA RA TIONE REIPUBLICAE ET REGNI A TREATISE IN COMPARATIVE POLITICAL SCIENCE1 -- APPENDICES -- INDICES