Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) : : networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance / / edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo in collaboration with Karin Friedrich.
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 ins...
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Superior document: | Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 17 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016. ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ;
Volume 17. |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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Other title: | Preliminary Material / Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European Renaissance / Confabulatory Life / The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and Physician / A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel’s Time / Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of Knowledge / Liddel’s Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of Ethics / It’s Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel’s Helmstedt / Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel’s Helmstedt / Liddel and the University of Aberdeen / Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600 / Liddel’s Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum / Reconstructing Liddel’s Library at Aberdeen / Liddel’s Published and Unpublished Works / Sources / Index of Names / Index of Places / |
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Summary: | 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. |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9004310665 |
ISSN: | 2352-1325 ; |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo in collaboration with Karin Friedrich. |