Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) : : networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance / / edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo in collaboration with Karin Friedrich.

• Superior document: Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions, Volume 17
• TeilnehmendeR: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel,; Friedrich, Karin, 1963-
• 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.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European Renaissance / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Confabulatory Life / Mordechai Feingold -- The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and Physician / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel’s Time / John Henry -- Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of Knowledge / Jonathan Regier -- Liddel’s Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of Ethics / Laura Di Giammatteo -- It’s Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel’s Helmstedt / Richard Kirwan -- Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel’s Helmstedt / Elizabeth Harding -- Liddel and the University of Aberdeen / Duncan Cockburn -- Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600 / Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier -- Liddel’s Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Reconstructing Liddel’s Library at Aberdeen / Jane Pirie -- Liddel’s Published and Unpublished Works / Sabine Bertram -- Sources / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Index of Names / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Index of Places / Pietro Daniel Omodeo.