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Book SynopsisVolume I: An Intellectual History of Science in the Renaissance - Part I: Cultural & Fundamental Frameworks.- Acknowledgments.- Remarks for the Reader.- Editor & Contributors.- Part I: An Overview.- Chapter 1. Introducing the Essays in An Intellectual History of Science in the Renaissance: Cultural, Fundamental & Technological Frameworks, Two Vols. (Raffaele Pisano).- Part II: Selected Essays.- Chapter 2. Renaissance Architecture: The Rise of the City (Luciano Boschiero and Raffaele Pisano).- Chapter 3. Households in the Renaissance (Lewin C. G.).- Chapter 4. Food: From the Mechanics to the Process of Cooking in the Renaissance (Katherine A. McIver).- Chapter 5. Health and Medicine the Renaissance (Francesca Ricci).- Part III: An Invited Essay on a Recent Discovery.- Chapter 6. Astrology & Astronomy in the Early Renaissance: A Discovery of a Rare Polychrome Italian Zodiac (Stefaan Missinne).- Index.
