An edition of Communicating observations in early modern letters (1500-1675) (2013)

Communicating observations in early modern letters (1500-1675)

epistolography and epistemology in the age of the scientific revolution

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Dirk van Miert, Dirk van Miert
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Warburg Institute, Nino Aragno
Language
English
Pages
268

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Communication in science, Congresses, Letter writing, Early works to 1800

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16th century, 17th century
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Communicating observations in early modern letters (1500-1675): epistolography and epistemology in the age of the scientific revolution
2013, Warburg Institute, Nino Aragno
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Table of Contents

Introduction / Dirk van Miert.
The first anthropologist of America: Petrus Martyr de Angleria (1457-1526) and his epistolary reports De orbe novo decades octo / Gerhard Holk.
'The spices of our art'. Medical observation in Conrad Gessner's letters / Candice Delisle.
Observing nature. The correspondence network of Carolus Clusius (1526-1609) / Florike Egmond.
Monumental letters in the late Renaissance / William Stenhouse.
Philology and empiricism: observation and description in the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609) / Dirk van Miert.
Reading in the Heavens: observation and interpretation of astronomical phenomena in learned letters circa 1600 / Adam Mosley.
Mapping Peiresc's Mediterranean: geography and astronomy, 1610-36 / Peter N. Miller.
Conceiving the invisible. The role of observation and experiment in Descartes's correspondence, 1630-50 / Erik-Jan Bos and Theo Verbeek.
'A cloud of witnesses': scientific observation in the correspondence of James Ussher (1581-1656) / Elizabethanne Boran.
Men of science as objects of observation in the correspondence of Henry Oldenburg, 1641-77 / Iordan Avramov.
Concluding observations on communicating observations / Dirk van Miert.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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London, Turin
Series
Warburg Institute Colloquia -- 23, Warburg Institute colloquia -- 23

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Library of Congress
Q223.2 .C66 2013

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Pagination
ix, 268 p.
Number of pages
268

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OL30976469M
ISBN 10
1908590467
ISBN 13
9781908590466
LCCN
2013456520
OCLC/WorldCat
867032043

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