Historia : empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe /

Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Pomata, Gianna, Siraisi, Nancy G.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Series:Transformations (M.I.T. Press)
Subjects:
Natural history > Europe > History.
Medicine > Europe > History.
Medicine > Religious aspects.
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Religion and Medicine
Sciences naturelles > Europe > Histoire.
Médecine > Europe > Histoire.
Médecine > Aspect religieux.
NATURE > Essays.
NATURE > Reference.
TRAVEL > Special Interest > Ecotourism.
Medicine.
Natural history.
Europe.
Europe
SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY & SOCIETY/History of Science
HUMANITIES/History
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 The Identities of History in Early Modern Europe: Prelude to a Study of the Artes Historicae
  • 2 Natural History, Ethics, and Physico-Theology
  • 3 Praxis Historialis: The Uses of Historia in Early Modern Medicine
  • 4 White Crows, Graying Hair, and Eyelashes: Problems for Natural Historians in the Reception of Aristotelian Logic and Biology from Pomponazzi to Bacon
  • 5 Antiquarianism and Idolatry: The Historia of Religions in the Seventeenth Century
  • 6 Between History and System
  • 7 Conrad Gessner and the Historical Depth of Renaissance Natural History
  • 8 Historia in Zwinger's Theatrum humanae vitae
  • 9 Histories, Stories, Exempla, and Anecdotes: Michele Savonarola from Latin to Vernacular
  • 10 Historiae, Natural History, Roman Antiquity, and Some Roman Physicians
  • 11 Description Terminable and Interminable: Looking at the Past, Nature, and Peoples in Peiresc's Archive
  • Bibliography
  • Contributors
  • Index.

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