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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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- Liddel’s Published and Unpublished Works / Sabine Bertram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.