This is a collection of 19 papers by well-known academics in their field, on numerous scientific instruments, from all parts of the world and through many historical periods.

Divided into seven themed chapters: signs, media, body, time, space, memory and identity, this book aims to provide a fresh approach to complex theoretical and historical questions.

This volume of essays on Thomas Browne aims to set the man and his works in new contexts.

The papers in the volume are all based on new research, and they constitute together a coherent and convergent set of case studies which demonstrate the vitality and inventiveness of early modern natural philosophers, and their awareness of ...

This collection of essays, by some of the leading scholars in Arabic philosophy, provides an introduction to the field by way of chapters devoted to individual thinkers (such as al-Farabi, Avicenna and Averroes) or groups, especially during ...

This book is a study of the scientific revolution as a movement of amateur science.

All of these essays in this volume reflect the close interaction between technical models and knowledge production in natural philosophy, natural history and epistemology.

This book provides students with a scholarly introduction to miracles, which also covers philosophical, medical and historical issues"-- Provided by publisher.

This volume consists of 21 essays on Marsilio Ficino (1433-99), the Florentine scholar-philosopher-magus-priest who was the architect of Renaissance Platonism.

With unprecedented current coverage of the profound changes in the nature and practice of science in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Europe, this comprehensive reference work addresses the individuals, ideas, and institutions that ...