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Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine : Essays in Honor of John E. Murdoch /
Containing sixteen essays and a substantial introduction by noted historians of premodern science, this book provides a fresh look at divergent yet complementary traditions of interpreting the natural world, ranging from Greek mechanics to early modern Chinese theories of dragons.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction (William R. Newman and Edith Dudley Sylla); Modes of Explanation in the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems (Jean De Groot); Structures of Argument and Concepts of Force in the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems (Mark Schiefsky); The Simple Ontology of Kalam Atomism: An Outline (A.I. Sabra); The Footprints of "Experiment" in Early Arabic Optics (Elaheh Kheirandish); The "Experience-Based Medicine" of the Thirteenth Century (Michael McVaugh); The Intellect Naturalized: Roger Bacon on the Existence of Corporeal Species within the Intellect(Yael Raizman-Kedar).
- Magic and the Physical World in Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism (Steven P. Marrone)The Debate over the Nature of Motion: John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Albert of Saxony. With an Edition of John Buridan's Quaestiones super libros Physicorum, secundum ultimam lecturam, Book III, q. 7; John Buridan and Critical Realism (Edith Dudley Sylla); The Significance of "Chymical Atomism" (William R. Newman); Conjecture, Probabilism, and Provisional Knowledge in Renaissance Meteorology (Craig Martin).
- Setting up Copernicus? Astronomy and Natural Philosophy in Giambattista Capuano da Manfredonia's Expositio on the Sphere (Michael H. Shank)Copernicus's Mereological Vision of the Universe (André Goddu); From "Dragonology" to Meteorology: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy and the Beginning of the Decline of the Dragon in China (Qiong Zhang); Baroque Fire (A Note on Early-Modern Angelology) (Anne A. Davenport); Words, Lines, Diagrams, Images: Towards a History of Scientific Imagery (Christoph Lüthy and Alexis Smets); Index.