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Grafton, Anthony - Siraisi, Nancy G. (eds.), Natural Particulars: Nature and the Disciplines in Renaissance Europe, Cambridge, Mass., The MIT Press (Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology), 1999 [=2000], xi + 426 pp.
- Resum
- This volume examines the transformation in ways of studying nature that took place in Western Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Some of the essays trace particular textual traditions, while others follow the development of scholarly and professional communities. Some concentrate on the internal analysis of primary sources, while others examine the spread of practices to larger groups. Central to all is the search for a context for the increased fascination with nature, and especially with natural particulars—the details of natural forms, plants, and animals—that characterized this period. The essays also discuss how older theories and methods continued to exist; how the renewed study of classical sources introduced new problems and theories into the study of nature; how the structure of disciplines, both old and new, shaped approaches to the natural world; and how the material and practical means of disseminating knowledge helped to shape its content. Recently the history of science in early modern Europe has been both invigorated and obscured by divisions between scholars of different schools. One school tends to claim that rigorous textual analysis provides the key to the development of science, whereas others tend to focus on the social and cultural contexts within which disciplines grew. This volume challenges such divisions, suggesting that multiple historical approaches are both legitimate and mutually complementary.
Table of Contents:
* Introduction / Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi
I. Natural Philosophies
* 1. Number, Shape, and Meaning in Pico's Christian Cabala: The Upright Tsade, the Closed Mem, and the Gaping Jaws of Azael / Brian P. Copenhaver
* 2. The Study of the Timaeus in Early Renaissance Italy / James Hankins
* 3. Marsilio Ficino: Daemonic Mathematics and the Hypotenuse of the Spirit / Michael J. B. Allen
* 4. Space, Light, and Soul in Francesco Patrizi's Nova de universis philosophia (1591) / Luc Deitz
* 5. Blair (1999), "The ‘problemata' as a natural ..."
* 6. The Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle's De animalibus in the Renaissance / John Monfasani
II Natural Disciplines
* 7. Epistemological Problems in Giovanni Mainardi's Commentary on Galen's Ars parva / Daniela Mugnai Carrara
* 8. "A Diet for Barbarians": Introducing Renaissance Medicine to Tudor England / Vivian Nutton
* 9. From the Laboratory to the Library: Alchemy According to Guglielmo Fabri / Chiara Crisciani
* 10. The Homunculus and His Forebears: Wonders of Art and Nature / William Newman
* 11. Natural Particulars: Medical Epistemology, Practice, and the Literature of Healing Springs / Katharine Park
* 12. The Formation of a Scientific Community: Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Italy / Paula Findlen
* 13. Empiricism and Community in Early Modern Science and Art: Some Comments on Baths, Plants, and Courts / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann
- Matèries
- Filosofia - Filosofia natural
Història natural - Animals
Alquímia
Medicina
Banys
- Notes
- Ponències del Seminari celebrat al Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology el dies 5-6 de maig de 1995.
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- URL
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