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Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology
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The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines—including natural history, medicine, antiquarianism, and... read more
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- Theodor Zwinger: Add a description of this character.
- Bacci
- Conrad Gessner
- Le Clerc
- Bodin
- Galen
- Peiresc
- Perizonius
- Vittori
- Michele
- Crisciani
- Pliny
- Maclean
- Cagnati
- Fabricius
- Petroni
- Daston
- Kessler
- Harvey
- Schenck
- Ferrara
- Aleandro
- Kelley
- Herbert
- Alexander
- F. Bacon
- Guarinoni
- Neri
- Cardano
- Aldrovandi
- Hippocrates
- Champier
- Crippa
- Selden
- Pesenti
- Vossius
- Fuchs
- Perfetti
- Grafton
- Leonico Tomeo
- Theophrastus
- Aristotle
- Val La
- Caesar
- Ruland
Setting & Locations edit
- Rome
- Savonarola
- Historia
- Pignoria
- Padua
- Paris
- Europe
- Basel
- Jupiter
- Italy
- Practica
- Zabarella
- Petrarch
- Valleriola
- France
- Cesalpino
- Leone
- Middle Ages
- Theodore Gaza
- Bologna
- England
- Frankfurt
- Egypt
- Verona
- Venice
- Curtius
- Cicero
- Provence
- St. Denis
- Naples
- Isidore Of Seville
- Germany
- Pomata
- Valerius Maximus
First Sentence edit
Writing about the prominence of natural history in the seventeenth century, such a deep connoisseur of the early modern "life sciences" as Jacques Roger noted that "the history of the word historia itself would deserve an accurate study."
Series & Lists edit
This book is in Transformations: Studies in the History of Science and Technology. (publisher series)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 508.094
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