Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine
ISBN: 9789047441137
Platform/Publisher: BRILL / BRILL
Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Unlimited; Download: Unlimited
Subjects: Subjectivity in literature.; Self-knowledge in literature.;

The studies in this volume present early science in its rich and divergent complexity. Many historians of the Scientific Revolution have used early modern scholasticism to represent pre-seventeenth century science as a whole, but a close look at ancient, medieval, and even early modern scientific writers shows that before the Scientific Revolution - and not only in Europe - there were many and diverse traditions of interpreting the natural world. This book provides a broad range of historical evidence concerning early science, which may be used as a basis for new and more complex historical interpretations.



Originally published as Volume XIV, Nos. 1-3 (2009) of Brill's journal Early Science and Medicine .


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