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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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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Leiden Boston
Brill
[2016]
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| In: |
Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions (volume 17)
Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions
volume 17 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
History
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| Further subjects: | B
Mathematicians (Scotland) Biography
B Scotland Relations (Germany) B Medicine (Europe, Northern) History B Science (Europe, Northern) History B Conference program University of Aberdeen. Library 2013 (Aberdeen) B Renaissance (Europe, Northern) B Scotland Intellectual life B Knowledge, Sociology of History B Physicians (Scotland) Biography B Liddel, Duncan (1561-1613) B Germany Relations (Scotland) |
| Summary: | "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"-- |
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| Item Description: | "[...] international conference that was held in May 2013 at the University Library [Aberdeen] under the title of 'Medical Knowledge between Polymathy and Disciplinarity: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) in Context." (ungezählte Seite IX) Bibliographie "Liddel's published and unpublished works" von Sabine Bertram: Seite 264-284 (Seite 264 ungezählt) Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 285-315 (Seite 285 ungezählt) Mit Registern |
| Physical Description: | XI, 322 Seiten, Illustrationen, Faksimiles, Diagramme (überwiegend farbig), 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-31065-0 |
