Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) (eBook)

Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance

Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Herausgeber)

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2016
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-31066-7 (ISBN)

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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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 18.4.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• ISBN-10: 90-04-31066-5 / 9004310665
• ISBN-13: 978-90-04-31066-7 / 9789004310667