Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) :: networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance /

"This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural a...

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Weitere Verfasser: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (HerausgeberIn), Friedrich, Karin, 1963- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden : Brill, [2016]
Schriftenreihe:History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 17.
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Zusammenfassung:"This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural and institutional frame of the northern European Renaissance, as well as a reconstruction of his scholarly networks and of the scientific debates in the time of post-Copernican astronomy, Melanchthonian humanism and Paracelsian controversies. Contributors are: Sabine Bertram, Duncan Cockburn, Laura Di Giammatteo, Mordechai Feingold, Karin Friedrich, Elizabeth Harding, John Henry, Richard Kirwan, Jane Pirie, Jonathan Regier"--Provided by publisher.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004310667
9004310665
ISSN:2352-1325 ;

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