Renaissance meteorology
Subtitle: Pomponazzi to Descartes
By: Craig Martin
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781421401874
Subjects: Meteorology; Philosophy; Physics; Renaissance Science; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-205) and index.
Table of contents: title: The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge; title: The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology; title: The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology; title: The chymistry of weather; title: Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism; title: Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.