Walton michael thomson 1945 ed (1 risultati)

sewn PAPERBACK, attractive copy, very good. DEBUS, ALLEN G. / WALTON, MICHAEL THOMSON, 1945-, ed. . Reading the book of nature: the other side of the Scientific Revolution. Allen G. Debus and Michael T. Walton, editors. Kirksville, Mo: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, 1998, xvi, 280pp., . Series: Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 41 The present volume is composed of papers read at a series of sessions centered on the history of Renaissance and early modern science and medicine held in Saint Louis at the Sexteenth Century Studeies Conference, October 24-27, 1996. - CONTENTS: Genesis and chemistry in the sixteenth century / Michael T. Walton -- Seeds with a mechanical purpose: Severinus' semina and seventeenth-century matter theory / Jole Shackelford -- Erastus and Patracelsianism: theological motifs in Thomas Erastus' rejection of Paracelsian natural philosophy / Charles D. Gunnoe, Jr. -- Libavius the Paracelsian? Monstrous novelties, institutions, and the norms of social virtue / Bruce T. Moran -- Alchemical and Baconian views on the art-nature division / William R. Newman -- Wisdom of the ancients and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis / Stephen A. McKnight -- John Dee and the Paracelsians / Nicholas H. Clulee -- "Older" view about matter in John Wilkins' "Modern" mathematical magick / Ana Maria Alfonso-Goldfarh -- Paracelsus and the delayed scientific revolution in Spain: a legacy of Philip II / Allen G. Debus -- Danish medicines for the Danes and the defense of indigenous medicines / Martha Baldwin -- Diversity in alchemy: the case of Gaston "Claveus" DuClo, a scholastic mercurialist chrysopoeian -- Lawrence M. Principe -- Many worlds of Jean D'Espagnet / Thomas Willard -- Talismans, incubi, divination, and the Book of M*: the bureau d'adresse confronts the occult / Kathleen Wellman -- Nature and art in seventeenth-century French chemical textbooks / Ursula Klein -- Contribution of Laurent Joubert's Traité du ris to sixteenth-century physiology of laughter / Vera Cecília Machline. 9780940474482 ISBN 0940474484. …