Duncan Liddel (1561-1613)
networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance
by Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Karin Friedrich
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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Physicians, Sociology of Knowledge, Intellectual life, Scotland, Relations, Renaissance, Mathematicians, Science, Medicine, Biography, History, Mathematicians, biography, Scotland, biography, Physicians, biography, Knowledge, sociology of, Scotland, intellectual life, Science, europe, Scotland, foreign relations, Germany, relations, International relationsPeople
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Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance
2016, Brill
in English
9004310657 9789004310650
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