Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the History of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995.
Contents:
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 in 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
