Historia : empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe /

Other Authors: Pomata, Gianna.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2005.
Series:Transformations
Subjects:
Online Access:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=138478
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505 0 |a Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Identities of History in Early Modern Europe: Prelude to a Study of the Artes Historicae -- 2 Natural History, Ethics, and Physico-Theology -- 3 Praxis Historialis: The Uses of Historia in Early Modern Medicine -- 4 White Crows, Graying Hair, and Eyelashes: Problems for Natural Historians in the Reception of Aristotelian Logic and Biology from Pomponazzi to Bacon -- 5 Antiquarianism and Idolatry: The Historia of Religions in the Seventeenth Century -- 6 Between History and System -- 7 Conrad Gessner and the Historical Depth of Renaissance Natural History -- 8 Historia in Zwinger's Theatrum humanae vitae -- 9 Histories, Stories, Exempla, and Anecdotes: Michele Savonarola from Latin to Vernacular -- 10 Historiae, Natural History, Roman Antiquity, and Some Roman Physicians -- 11 Description Terminable and Interminable: Looking at the Past, Nature, and Peoples in Peiresc's Archive -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. 
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