Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe (Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology)
Contributors: Gianna Pomata (Editor); Nancy G. Siraisi (Editor)
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: August 1, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9780262162296
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; History of science; Social & cultural anthropology; c 1500 to c 1600; Science; Science/Mathematics; Europe; Essays; Science / History; History; Medicine; Natural history
First sentence: Writing about the prominence of natural history in the seventeenth century, such a deep connoisseur of the early modern "life sciences" as Jacques Roger noted that "the history of the word historia itself would deserve an accurate study."