Duncan Liddel (1561-1613)
Subtitle: networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance
By: edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo in collaboration with Karin Friedrich
Series: Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions -- volume 17
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Leiden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9789004310650; 9789004310667
Subjects: Physicians; Sociology of Knowledge; Intellectual life; Scotland; Relations; Renaissance; Mathematicians; Science; Medicine; Biography; History
Description: "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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.