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