Between demonstration and imagination : : essays in the history of science and philosophy presented to John D. North / / edited by Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt.
The essays in this volume reflect the wide-ranging interests of John D. North, distinguished historian of science and philosophy. Section One has papers on horoscopes, astrolabes and time-reckoning, and it includes an edition of a twelfth-century treatise on the astrolabe and surveys of astrolabes....
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| Superior document: | Brill's studies in intellectual history, volume 96 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston : : Brill,, 1999. |
| Year of Publication: | 1999 |
| Language: | English Dutch Italian |
| Series: | Brill's studies in intellectual history ;
v. 96. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (443 pages) :; illustrations, maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt
- Bringing Astronomical Instruments Back to Earth—The Geographical Data on Medieval Astrolabes (to circa 1100) / David A. King
- The Treatise on the Astrolabe by Rudolf of Bruges / Richard Lorch
- Horoscopes and History: Ibn 'Azzūz and His Retrospective Horoscopes Related to the Battle of El Salado (1340) / Julio Samsó
- The Names and Faces of the Hours / Francis Maddison and Anthony Turner
- 'Abd al-Masīḥ of Winchester / Charles Burnett
- Calcidius's Commentary on Plato's Timaeus in Latin Astronomy of the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries / Bruce S. Eastwood
- Sacrobosco Illustrated / Owen Gingerich
- Astronomy in the Medieval Spanish Jewish Community / Bernard R. Goldstein
- God, Science, and Natural Philosophy in the Late Middle Ages / Edward Grant
- A Strange Fact About Aristotelian Dynamics / Keith Hutchison
- The Works and Days of Simon Bredon, a Fourteenth-Century Astronomer and Physician / K.V. Snedegar
- A Humanist Reading of Boethius's Consolatio Philosophiae: The Commentary by Murmellius and Agricola (1514) / Lodi Nauta
- 1st Tschimhaus' Medicina mentis ein Ableger von Spinozas Methodologie? / Detlev Pätzold
- 'Something, I Know Not What'. The Concept of Substance in Early Modern Thought / Han van Ruler
- Les Vite di matematici Arabi de Bernardino Baldi(Urbino 1553-1617) / G. Federici Vescovini
- Bibliography of John D. North / Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt
- Index of Personal Names / Lodi Nauta and Arjo Vanderjagt.