Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) :
Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) : networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance /
edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo in collaboration with Karin Friedrich.
- 1 online resource (xi, 322 pages) : illustrations
- Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions, volume 17 2352-1325 ; .
- History of science and medicine library. Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions ; v. 17. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Science and medicine in the humanistic networks of the northern European Renaissance / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Confabulatory life / Mordechai Feingold -- The European career of a Scottish mathematician and physician / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- A pragmatic aspect of polymathy: the alliance of mathematics and medicine in Liddel's time / John Henry -- Logic, mathematics and natural light: Liddel on the foundations of knowledge / Jonathan Regier -- Liddel's Ars Medica (1607): the effective method as foundation of medical knowledge and of ethics / Laura Di Giammatteo -- It's who you know: scholarly networks in Liddel's Helmstedt -- Home-styling matters: symbolic dimensions of the professorial household at Liddel's Helmstedt / Elizabeth Harding -- Liddel and the University of Aberdeen / Duncan Cockburn -- Liddel on the geo-heliocentric controversy: his letter to Brahe from 1600 / Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier -- Liddel's Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Reconstructing Liddel's library at Aberdeen / Jane Pirie -- Liddel's published and unpublished works / Sabine Bertram.
"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.
9789004310667 9004310665
10.1163/9789004310667
2016000091
Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613.
Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613.
Mathematicians--Scotland--Biography.
Physicians--Scotland--Biography.
Knowledge, Sociology of--History.
Renaissance--Europe, Northern.
Science--History.--Europe, Northern
Medicine--History.--Europe, Northern
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Science & Technology.
SCIENCE--History.
Intellectual life.
International relations.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Mathematicians.
Medicine.
Physicians.
Renaissance.
Science.
Scotland--Intellectual life.
Scotland--Relations--Germany.
Germany--Relations--Scotland.
Northern Europe.
Germany.
Scotland.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
QA29.L5895 / D86 2016eb
509.2 B
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Science and medicine in the humanistic networks of the northern European Renaissance / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Confabulatory life / Mordechai Feingold -- The European career of a Scottish mathematician and physician / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- A pragmatic aspect of polymathy: the alliance of mathematics and medicine in Liddel's time / John Henry -- Logic, mathematics and natural light: Liddel on the foundations of knowledge / Jonathan Regier -- Liddel's Ars Medica (1607): the effective method as foundation of medical knowledge and of ethics / Laura Di Giammatteo -- It's who you know: scholarly networks in Liddel's Helmstedt -- Home-styling matters: symbolic dimensions of the professorial household at Liddel's Helmstedt / Elizabeth Harding -- Liddel and the University of Aberdeen / Duncan Cockburn -- Liddel on the geo-heliocentric controversy: his letter to Brahe from 1600 / Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier -- Liddel's Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum / Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Reconstructing Liddel's library at Aberdeen / Jane Pirie -- Liddel's published and unpublished works / Sabine Bertram.
"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.
9789004310667 9004310665
10.1163/9789004310667
2016000091
Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613.
Liddel, Duncan, 1561-1613.
Mathematicians--Scotland--Biography.
Physicians--Scotland--Biography.
Knowledge, Sociology of--History.
Renaissance--Europe, Northern.
Science--History.--Europe, Northern
Medicine--History.--Europe, Northern
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Science & Technology.
SCIENCE--History.
Intellectual life.
International relations.
Knowledge, Sociology of.
Mathematicians.
Medicine.
Physicians.
Renaissance.
Science.
Scotland--Intellectual life.
Scotland--Relations--Germany.
Germany--Relations--Scotland.
Northern Europe.
Germany.
Scotland.
Electronic books.
Biographies.
History.
QA29.L5895 / D86 2016eb
509.2 B