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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel (Editor ), Friedrich, Karin, 1963- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden : Brill, [2016]
Colección:History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 17.
Temas:
Liddel, Duncan, > 1561-1613.
Liddel, Duncan, > 1561-1613
Mathematicians > Scotland > Biography.
Physicians > Scotland > Biography.
Knowledge, Sociology of > History.
Renaissance > Europe, Northern.
Science > Europe, Northern > History.
Medicine > Europe, Northern > History.
Science.
Physicians.
Medicine
Science
Science > history
Physicians
Mathématiciens > Écosse > Biographies.
Sociologie de la connaissance > Histoire.
Renaissance > Europe septentrionale.
Sciences > Europe septentrionale > Histoire.
Médecine > Europe septentrionale > Histoire.
Sciences.
Médecins.
science (modern discipline)
physicians.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > History.
Intellectual life
International relations
Knowledge, Sociology of
Mathematicians
Renaissance
Scotland > Intellectual life.
Scotland > Relations > Germany.
Germany > Relations > Scotland.
Écosse > Vie intellectuelle.
Écosse > Relations > Allemagne.
Northern Europe
Germany
Scotland
Biographies
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:"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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004310667
9004310665
ISSN:2352-1325 ;

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