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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.

€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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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.

€166.00$215.00

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7/1

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Bibliographic Set

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9789004168657

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The Rise and Decline of Dutch Technological Leadership (2 vols)

Karel Davids, VU University Amsterdam

This book provides a wide-ranging overview of Dutch technological leadership in the early modern Europe, it explains whence this leadership came about and why it ended and it explores to what extent the Dutch case illuminates the evolution of technological leadership in general.

€110.00$142.00

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9789004161764

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The Salt of the Earth

Anna Marie Roos, Oxford University

Consisting of a series of case studies, this book is devoted to the concept and uses of salt in early modern science, which have played a crucial role in the evolution of matter theory from Aristotelian concepts of the elements to Newtonian chymistry.