Communicating observations in early modern letters (1500-1675)
Subtitle: epistolography and epistemology in the age of the scientific revolution
By: edited by Dirk van Miert
Series: Warburg Institute Colloquia -- 23; Warburg Institute colloquia -- 23
Publisher: Warburg Institute; Nino Aragno
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London; Turin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781908590466
Subjects: Communication in science; Congresses; Letter writing; Early works to 1800
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Dirk van Miert.; title: The first anthropologist of America: Petrus Martyr de Angleria (1457-1526) and his epistolary reports De orbe novo decades octo / Gerhard Holk.; title: 'The spices of our art'. Medical observation in Conrad Gessner's letters / Candice Delisle.; title: Observing nature. The correspondence network of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) / Florike Egmond.; title: Monumental letters in the late Renaissance / William Stenhouse.; title: Philology and empiricism: observation and description in the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) / Dirk van Miert.; title: Reading in the Heavens: observation and interpretation of astronomical phenomena in learned letters circa 1600 / Adam Mosley.; title: Mapping Peiresc's Mediterranean: geography and astronomy, 1610-36 / Peter N. Miller.; title: Conceiving the invisible. The role of observation and experiment in Descartes's correspondence, 1630-50 / Erik-Jan Bos and Theo Verbeek.; title: 'A cloud of witnesses': scientific observation in the correspondence of James Ussher (1581-1656) / Elizabethanne Boran.; title: Men of science as objects of observation in the correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, 1641-77 / Iordan Avramov.; title: Concluding observations on communicating observations / Dirk van Miert.