Natural particulars   nature and the dis ciplines in Renaissance Europe /   [electronic resource] : 
edited by Anthony Grafton and Nancy Siraisi. 
 - Cambridge, Mass. :   MIT Press,   c1999. 
 - xi, 426 p. :   ill. ;   24 cm. 
 - Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology .
 - Dibner Institute studies in the history of science and technology. ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/>  Based on papers from a workshop held at Dibner Institute for the His tory of Science and Technology, May 5-6, 1995. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Number, shape and meaning in Pico's Christian Cabala : the upright T sade, the closed Mem and the gaping jaws of Azazel / Brian P. Copenhave r -- The study of the Timaeus of early Renaissance Italy / James Hankin s -- Marsilio Ficino : daemonic mathematics and the hypotenuse of the s pirit / Michael J.B. Allen -- Space, light and soul in Francesco Patriz i's Nova de universis philosophia (1591) / Luc Deitz -- The Problemata as a natural philosophical genre / Ann Blair -- The pseudo-Aristotelian problemata and Aristotle's De animalibus in the Renaissance / John Mon fasani -- Epistemological problems in Giovanni Mainardi's commentary on Galen's Ars parva / Daniela Mugnai Carrara -- "A diet for barbarians" : introducing Renaissance medicine to tudor England / Vivian Nutton -- From the laboratory to the library : alchemy according to Guglielmo Fab ri / Chiara Crisciani -- The homunculus and his forebears : wonders of art and nature / William Newman -- Natural particulars : medical episte mology, practice and the literature of healing springs / Katharine Park -- The formation of a scientific community : natural history in sixtee nth-century Italy / Paula Findlen -- Empiricism and community in early modern science and art : some comments on baths, plants and courts / Th omas DaCosta Kaufmann. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Nature-- Congresses.<br/> Life sciences-- History-- Europe-- Congresses.<br/> Science, Renaissance-- Congresses.