Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) : networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance

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Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) : networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance

edited by Pietro Daniel Omodeo ; in collaboration with Karin Friedrich

（Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions / editor, M. Feingold, v. 17）

Brill, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes

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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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PART 1 Liddel's World 1 Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European Renaissance Pietro Daniel Omodeo 2 Confabulatory Life Mordechai Feingold 3 The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and Physician Pietro Daniel Omodeo PART 2 Mathematics, Medicine and Epistemology 4 A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel's Time John Henry 5 Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of Knowledge Jonathan Regier 6 Liddel's Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of Ethics Laura Di Giammatteo PART 3 Academic Life and Higher Education 7 It's Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel's Helmstedt Richard Kirwan 8 Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel's Helmstedt Elizabeth Harding 9 Liddel and the University of Aberdeen Duncan Cockburn PART 4 New Sources 10 Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600 Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier 11 Liddel's Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum Pietro Daniel Omodeo PART 5 Bibliographical Reconstructions 12 Reconstructing Liddel's Library at Aberdeen Jane Pirie 13 Liddel's Published and Unpublished Works Sabine Bertram

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