Duncan Liddel (1561-1613): networks of polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance

"This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural a...

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Corporate Authors: Medical Knowledge between Polymathy and Disciplinarity: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) in Context, Veranstaltung 2013, Aberdeen (Author) ; University of Aberdeen, Library (Organizer)
Contributors: Omodeo, Pietro Daniel 1979- (Editor) ; Friedrich, Karin 1963- (Editor)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Leiden Boston Brill [2016]
In: Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions (volume 17)
Year: 2016
Series/Journal:Scientific and learned cultures and their institutions volume 17
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B History
Further subjects:B Mathematicians (Scotland) Biography
B Scotland Relations (Germany)
B Medicine (Europe, Northern) History
B Science (Europe, Northern) History
B Conference program University of Aberdeen. Library 2013 (Aberdeen)
B Renaissance (Europe, Northern)
B Scotland Intellectual life
B Knowledge, Sociology of History
B Physicians (Scotland) Biography
B Liddel, Duncan (1561-1613)
B Germany Relations (Scotland)
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Summary:"This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural and institutional frame of the northern European Renaissance, as well as a reconstruction of his scholarly networks and of the scientific debates in the time of post-Copernican astronomy, Melanchthonian humanism and Paracelsian controversies. Contributors are: Sabine Bertram, Duncan Cockburn, Laura Di Giammatteo, Mordechai Feingold, Karin Friedrich, Elizabeth Harding, John Henry, Richard Kirwan, Jane Pirie, Jonathan Regier"--
Item Description:"[...] international conference that was held in May 2013 at the University Library [Aberdeen] under the title of 'Medical Knowledge between Polymathy and Disciplinarity: Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) in Context." (ungezählte Seite IX)
Bibliographie "Liddel's published and unpublished works" von Sabine Bertram: Seite 264-284 (Seite 264 ungezählt)
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 285-315 (Seite 285 ungezählt)
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ISBN:9004310657