Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance: 17 (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions) - Hardcover

9789004310650: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance: 17 (Scientific and Learned Cultures and Their Institutions)

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ISBN 10: 9004310657 ISBN 13: 9789004310650

Publisher: Brill, 2016

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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About the Author

Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, is member of the Collective Research Centre Episteme in Bewegung, Freie Universit�t Berlin. His research focuses on science, philosophy and literature in the Early Modern Period, as well as on historical epistemology.

Karin Friedrich is professor of early modern European History at the University of Aberdeen. She is co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies and specialises on early modern social and intellectual history in Germany and East Central Europe.

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