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9789004125223

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Mélanges d'histoire de la médecine hébraïque

Edited by Gad Freudenthal and Samuel Kottek

This volume groups together some thirty indispensable biographical and thematic studies on the history of medicine among Jews, from Talmudic times to the 20th century, by some of the most knowledgeable historians, published between 1948 and 1985.

€99.00$136.00

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23/2

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9789004211506

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From Earth-Bound to Satellite

Edited by Alison D. Morrison-Low, National Museums Scotland, Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Free University of Berlin, Stephen Johnston, Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford, and Giorgio Strano, Museo Galileo, Florence

Marking the anniversary of the telescope’s invention, these collected essays highlight a number of significant historical episodes concerning this well-loved instrument, which has played a crucial role in Man’s thinking about his position – literally and philosophically – in the universe.

€133.00$172.00

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22/16

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9789004207035

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Web of Nature: Martin Lister (1639-1712), the First Arachnologist

Anna Marie Roos, University of Oxford

This first full-length biography of Dr. Martin Lister (1639-1712), vice-president of the Royal Society, Royal Physician, and the first arachnologist and conchologist, provides an unprecedented picture of a seventeenth-century virtuoso.

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€211.00$273.00

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STGM

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9789004085527

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Vision and Certitude in the Age of Ockham

K.H. Tachau

€99.00$136.00

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21/2

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9789004209350

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Sacred Words and Worlds

Zur Shalev, University of Haifa

This book examines the scholarly genre of 'geographia sacra' in early modern Europe, tracing its contours, the outlooks and concerns of its practitioners, as well as the intersections of religion and geography in an age that saw dramatic revolutions in both fields.

€99.00$136.00

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INTE

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9789004217218

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Portuguese Humanism and the Republic of Letters

Edited by Maria Berbara and Karl A.E. Enenkel

This volume focuses on the interdisciplinary investigation of Portuguese humanism, especially as a noteworthy player in the international network of early modern scholarship, literature and visual arts.

€102.00$132.00

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20/1

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9789004207240

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Descartes among the Scholastics

Roger Ariew, University of South Florida

Descartes among the Scholastics touches on topics shared by Cartesian and late scholastic philosophy: matter and form, causation, infinity, place, time, void, and motion; the substance of the heavens; principles of metaphysics (unity, principle of individuation, truth and falsity).

€102.00$132.00

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19/15

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9789004201767

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Thought Experiments in Methodological and Historical Contexts

Edited by Katerina Ierodiakonou, University of Athens and Sophie Roux, University of Grenoble and Institut Universitaire de France

By analysing thought experiments from various periods in the history of philosophy and science, the essays in this volume seek to clarify how thought experiments work, what their limits are, and what their conceptualisation could be.

€123.00$159.00

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9789004187849

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Death Defied

Luuc Kooijmans, University of Amsterdam. Translated by Diane Webb

Until well into the nineteenth century, Frederik Ruysch enjoyed international fame as an anatomist. He owed his renown to a preparation method that greatly aided early-modern scientists in their exploration of the human body and transformed dissection from a messy business into a widely admired art.

€104.00$135.00

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17/14

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9789004185043

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John Buridan Quaestiones super libros De generatione et corruptione Aristotelis

Edited by Michiel Streijger, Paul J.J.M. Bakker, Radboud University Nijmegen, Johannes M.M.H. Thijssen, Radboud University Nijmegen

This book offers the first critical edition of the Questions on Aristotle's De generatione et corruptione by John Buridan (d. 1361). The text originated out of Buridan's teaching and was widely used at universities in Eastern Europe.