Science, culture, and popular belief in Renaissance Europe / edited by Stephen Pumfrey, Paolo L. Rossi, Maurice Slawinski.

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Other Authors: Pumfrey, Stephen, Rossi, Paolo L., 1946-, Slawinski, Maurice
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Manchester ; New York : New York, NY, USA : Manchester University Press ; Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, ©1991.
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Table of Contents:
  • Remapping knowledge, reshaping institutions / Luce Giard
  • The history of science and the Renaissance science of history / Stephen Pumfrey
  • Rhetoric and science/rhetoric of science/rhetoric as science / Maurice Slawinski
  • Natural philosophy and its public concerns / Julian Martin
  • The Church and the new philosophy / Peter Dear
  • Society, culture and the dissemination of learning / Paolo L. Rossi
  • The challenge of practical mathematics / J.A. Bennett
  • Doctors and healers : popular culture and the medical profession / John Henry
  • The rational witchfinder : conscience, demonological naturalism and popular superstitions / Stuart Clark
  • Astrology, religion and politics in counter-Reformation Rome / Germana Ernst
  • Astrology in early modern England : the making of a vulgar knowledge / Patrick Curry.