Renaissance meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes
The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotel...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Subito Delivery Service: | Order now. |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
Baltimore, Md.
Johns Hopkins Univ. Press
2011
|
| In: | Year: 2011 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Martin, Craig, Renaissance Meteorology: Pomponazzi to Descartes] (2012) (Martin, Nathan)
|
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Meteorology
/ Geschichte 17. Jh.
B Europe |
| Further subjects: | B
Science, Renaissance
B Physics Philosophy B Meteorology History 17th century |
| Online Access: |
Book review (H-Net) Table of Contents (Publisher) |
| Summary: | The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology |
|---|---|
| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [191] - 205) and index |
| Physical Description: | VIII, 213 S., Ill., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 1-4214-0187-8 978-1-4214-0187-4 |
