Natural particulars
Subtitle: nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe
By: edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi.
Contributors: Grafton, Anthony.; Siraisi, Nancy G.
Series: Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
Subjects: Nature -- Congresses; Life sciences -- Europe -- History -- Congresses; Science, Renaissance -- Congresses; Nature; Life sciences -- Europe -- History
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Number, shape and meaning in Pico's Christian Cabala : the upright Tsade, the closed Mem and the gaping jaws of Azazel / Brian P. Copenhaver; title: The study of the Timaeus of early Renaissance Italy / James Hankins; title: Marsilio Ficino : daemonic mathematics and the hypotenuse of the spirit / Michael J.B. Allen; title: Space, light and soul in Francesco Patrizi's Nova de universis philosophia (1591) / Luc Deitz; title: The Problemata as a natural philosophical genre / Ann Blair; title: The pseudo-Aristotelian problemata and Aristotle's De animalibus in the Renaissance / John Monfasani; title: Epistemological problems in Giovanni Mainardi's commentary on Galen's Ars parva / Daniela Mugnai Carrara; title: "A diet for barbarians" : introducing Renaissance medicine to tudor England / Vivian Nutton; title: From the laboratory to the library : alchemy according to Guglielmo Fabri / Chiara Crisciani; title: The homunculus and his forebears : wonders of art and nature / William Newman; title: Natural particulars : medical epistemology, practice and the literature of healing springs / Katharine Park; title: The formation of a scientific community : natural history in sixteenth-century Italy / Paula Findlen; title: Empiricism and community in early modern science and art : some comments on baths, plants and courts / Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann.