Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes /
Martin, Craig,1972-
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press,
2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.
Meteorology
Science, Renaissance.
Physics