Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004178783 ISBN 13: 9789004178786

Publisher: Brill, 2009

Synopsis

The studies in this volume present early science in its rich and divergent complexity. Many historians of the Scientific Revolution have used early modern scholasticism to represent pre-seventeenth century science as a whole, but a close look at ancient, medieval, and even early modern scientific writers shows that before the Scientific Revolution - and not only in Europe - there were many and diverse traditions of interpreting the natural world. This book provides a broad range of historical evidence concerning early science, which may be used as a basis for new and more complex historical interpretations.

Originally published as Volume XIV, Nos. 1-3 (2009) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine.

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About the Author

Edith Dudley Sylla, Ph.D. (1971) in History of Science, Harvard University, is Professor of History Emerita at North Carolina State University. She recently published a study and English translation of Jacob Bernoulli's The Art of Conjecturing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).

William R. Newman, Ph.D. (1986) in History of Science, Harvard University, is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. His most recent monographs are Atoms and Alchemy and Promethean Ambitions, both with the University of Chicago Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004178783
• ISBN 13: 9789004178786
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464
• Editor: Sylla Edith, Newman William R.