Medieval and Early Modern Science

Edited by J.M.M.H. Thijssen, Radboud University, Nijmegen, and C.H. Lüthy, Radboud University, Nijmegen

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1567-8393
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1872-0684
€99.00$136.00
Series:
MEMS
Volume:
29/18
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004221932
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New Title
Venus Seen on the Sun
Translated with Introduction and Notes by Wilbur Applebaum, Illinois Institute of Technology
This text by Jeremiah Horrocks is his accurate prediction and the first observation of a significant astronomical event, and his analysis and comments on the changing nature and pactices of astronomy between Galileo and Newton in the 17th century.
€99.00$136.00
Series:
MEMS
Volume:
26/17
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004218710
Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy
Hiro Hirai, Radboud University Nijmegen
Exploring Renaissance humanists’ debates on matter, life and the soul, this volume addresses the contribution of humanist culture to the evolution of early modern natural philosophy so as to shed light on the medical context of the Scientific Revolution.
€129.00$177.00
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HSML
Volume:
22/16
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004207035
Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist
Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford
This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso.
€99.00$136.00
Series:
HSML
Volume:
19/15
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004201767
Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts
Edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, University of Athens and Sophie Roux, University of Grenoble and Institut Universitaire de France
By analysing thought experiments from various periods in the history of philosophy and science, the essays in this volume seek to clarify how thought experiments work, what their limits are, and what their conceptualisation could be.
€101.00$140.00
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HSML
Volume:
17
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004185043
John Buridan Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione Aristotelis
Edited by Michiel Streijger, Paul J.J.M. Bakker, Radboud University Nijmegen, Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen, Radboud University Nijmegen
This book offers the first critical edition of the Questions on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione by John Buridan (d. 1361). The text originated out of Buridan's teaching and was widely used at universities in Eastern Europe.
€132.00$183.00
Series:
HSML
Volume:
16
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004183674
Key Texts of Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810) on the Science and Art of Nature
Translations and Essays by Jocelyn Holland, University of California Santa Barbara
This bilingual edition offers the first English translations of three texts by the Romantic-era scientist, Johann Wilhelm Ritter (1776-1810). Explanatory essays accompanying each translation focus on the confluence of scientific and aesthetic inquiry in the work of this seminal thinker.
€132.00$183.00
Series:
HSML
Volume:
15
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004181076
Copernicus and the Aristotelian Tradition
André Goddu, Stonehill College
Drawing on a half century of scholarship, of Polish studies of Copernicus and Cracow University, and of Copernicus's sources, this book offers a comprehensive re-evaluation of Copernicus's achievement, and explains his commitment to the uniform, circular motions of celestial bodies, and his ...
€101.00$140.00
Series:
HSML
Volume:
13
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004176652
Monks, Manuscripts and Sundials
Catherine Eagleton, British Museum and University of Cambridge
Bringing together the surviving material and manuscript evidence, this book looks closely at a fascinating medieval sundial in the form of a ship. It considers who made and used the surviving instruments, as well as studying the scholars who wrote about it.
€82.00$114.00
Series:
HSML
Volume:
12
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004176157
The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini
José Chabás, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Bernard R. Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh
This book describes and analyses, for the first time, the astronomical tables of Giovanni Bianchini of Ferrara (d. after 1469), explains their context, inserts them into an astronomical tradition that began in Toledo, and addresses their diffusion.
€107.00$149.00
Series:
HSML
Volume:
8
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004172173
Atomism in Late Medieval Philosophy and Theology
Edited by Christophe Grellard, École Française de Rome and Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance (CNRS) and Aurélien Robert, University of Paris 1 -Sorbonne
Drawing a new portrait of late medieval conflicts between atomists and anti-atomists, this book offers a new outlook on the fourteenth century's development of sciences.
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