Natural knowledge and Aristotelianism at early modern Protestant universities
By: edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Volkhard Wels
Series: Episteme in Bewegung -- Band 14; Episteme in Bewegung -- Bd. 14.
Publisher: Harrassowitz Verlag
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Wiesbaden
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9783447112659
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Natural theology; Study and teaching; Protestant theological seminaries; Universities and colleges; Science; Education
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Andrew James Johnston, Gyburg Uhlmann; title: Introduction / Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Volkhard Weis; title: Melanchthon's logic and rhetoric and the methodology of chemical knowledge in Libavius's Alchymia / Volkhard Wels; title: Nature as revelation : Philipp Melanchthon's image of nature / Günter Frank; title: God in time and space : Socinian physics and its opponents / Sascha Salatowsky; title: The Wittenberg reception of Copernicus : at the origin of a scholarly tradition / Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Jonathan Regier; title: Cosmology and scholarship in seventeenth-century Helmstedt : the Baltic mathematician and scientific mediator Nicolaus Andreae Granius (c. 1569-1631) / Stefano Gulizia; title: Attacks on judicial astrology, religious dissent and the rise of skepticism / Barbara Mahlmann-Bauer; title: Celestial phenomena in early modernity : the integrated image of comets / Anna Jerratsch; title: Bartholomaeus Keckermann and Christoph Hunichius on novas and comets at the beginning of the 17th century : two opposing views on the relation between natural philosophy and mathematics / Miguel Ángel Granada; title: Defending Aristotle, constructing Chymia : Libavius, logic, and the German schools / Bruce T. Moran; title: Reforming the Prisca Medicina : Libavius' axioms of elements and mixture / Elisabeth Moreau; title: Johann Ludwig Hannemann (1640-1724) and the defence of paracelsism in Kiel / Bernd Roling; title: Knowledge, community and authority at the academia naturae curiosorum / Simon Rebohm; title: The reconfiguration of Natura and Ars in Cartesian rhetoric and the epistemological reflections in the prize questions of the French academies / Martin Urmann.