TY  - BOOK
AU  - Omodeo,Pietro Daniel
AU  - Friedrich,Karin
TI  - Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance 
T2  - Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions,
SN  - 9789004310667
AV  - QA29.L5895 D86 2016eb
U1  - 509.2B 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Liddel, Duncan,
KW  - Mathematicians
KW  - Scotland
KW  - Biography
KW  - Physicians
KW  - Knowledge, Sociology of
KW  - History
KW  - Renaissance
KW  - Europe, Northern
KW  - Science
KW  - Medicine
KW  - BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
KW  - Science & Technology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SCIENCE
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - fast
KW  - International relations
KW  - Relations
KW  - Germany
KW  - Northern Europe
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - Biographies
N1  - 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/ Pietro Daniel Omodeo -- Reconstructing Liddel's library at Aberdeen / Jane Pirie -- Liddel's published and unpublished works / Sabine Bertram
N2  - "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
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ER  -