Search: History - History of Science &amp; Medicine, 2009

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9789004171190

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Medieval Pharmacotherapy - Continuity and Change

Helena M. Paavilainen

The development of medical drug therapy in medieval times is an interplay between tradition and innovation. This book tracks the changes in drug recommendations from the Arabic texts of Ibn Sīnā to Latin medical scholasticism, demonstrating their essential rationality.

€83.00$108.00

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9789004179950

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The Care of Brute Beasts

Louise Hill Curth, University of Winchester

This book is about medical beliefs and practices for animals in early modern England. Although there are numerous texts on the subject of human health, this is the first and only text to focus exclusively on animals during this period.

€84.00$109.00

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12/10

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9789004176157

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The Astronomical Tables of Giovanni Bianchini

José Chabás, Universitat Pompeu Fabra and Bernard R. Goldstein, University of Pittsburgh

This book describes and analyses, for the first time, the astronomical tables of Giovanni Bianchini of Ferrara (d. after 1469), explains their context, inserts them into an astronomical tradition that began in Toledo, and addresses their diffusion.

€110.00$142.00

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9789004173453

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Creating Shapes in Civil and Naval Architecture

Edited by Horst Nowacki, TU Berlin and Wolfgang Lefèvre, Freie Universität Berlin and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

The design, construction and fabrication of complex two- and three-dimensional shapes in civil and naval architecture have always been a particularly demanding part of the art of engineering. This volume presents a comparative knowledge history in these two distinct branches of construction ...

€110.00$142.00

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10/1

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9789004172708

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European Collections of Scientific Instruments, 1550-1750

Edited by Giorgio Strano, Museo Galileo, Florence, Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, Mara Miniati, Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza, Florence, and Alison Morrison-Low, National Museums Scotland

These selected studies on sixteenth and eighteenth centuries European collections of scientific instruments, which were part of the princely ‘wunderkammern’, delineate an up-to-date-panorama about the formation of the most important museums of the history of science.

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1383-7427

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1573-3823

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Early Science and Medicine

Edited by Christoph Lüthy, Radboud University, Nijmegen

A peer-reviewed journal for English-language studies dealing with the content and influence of science, medicine and technology from the earliest times through to the end of the eighteenth century. Science is defined in its widest form to include, for example, natural philosophy, optics, ...

€110.00$142.00

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9789004178786

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Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine

Edited by Edith Dudley Sylla and William R. Newman

Containing sixteen essays and a substantial introduction by noted historians of premodern science, this book provides a fresh look at divergent yet complementary traditions of interpreting the natural world, ranging from Greek mechanics to early modern Chinese theories of dragons.