{"product_id":"duncan-liddel-1561-1613-networks-of-polymathy-and-the-northern-european-renaissance-9789004310650","title":"Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a rich and very valuable book. It is also an exemplary volume that throws light not only on a rather unknown figure in the history of science but also on sixteenth-century scholarly life in general.” Rienk Vermij, University of Oklahoma. In: Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 48, No. 4 (2017), pp. 482-483.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 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","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53210681442647,"sku":"9789004310650","price":160.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/duncan-liddel-1561-1613-networks-of-polymathy-and-the-northern-european-renaissance-9789004310650","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}