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Author:   Ole Grell ,  Andrew Cunningham
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9781472439581

ISBN 10:   1472439589
Pages:   230
Publication Date:   04 November 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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CONTENTS List of Contributors List of Figures Acknowledgements 1. Introduction: Ole Peter Grell 2. Philip Melanchthon and his significance for natural philosophy: Andrew Cunningham 3. Daniel Sennert and the chymico-atomical reform of medicine: Joel A. Klein 4. The changing face of Lutheranism in post-Reformation Denmark: Rasmus H. C. Dreyer 5. After Tycho: Philippist astronomy and cosmology in the work of Brahe's Scandinavian assistants: Adam Mosley 6. The Book of Nature and the Word of God. Lutheran natural philosophy and medicine in early 17th century Denmark and Norway: Morten Fink-Jensen 7. Holger Rosenkrantz, 'the Learned' (1574-1642): Jens Glebe-Møller 8. The significance of monstrous births in Thomas Bartholin’s natural philosophy: Signe Nipper Nielsen 9. Three seventeenth century manuals on how and where to study medicine: Ole Peter Grell 10. The natural philosophy of Sigfrid Aronus Forsius: between the Created World and God: Terhi Kiiskinen 11. Johannes Bureus and the Prisca Astronomia: A Lutheran Antiquary Engages with the New Science: Matthew Norris 12. By Natural Means: Magic and Medicine in Ericus Johannis Prytz’ Magia incantatrix (1632): Martin Kjellgren Index

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Ole Peter Grell is Professor in Early Modern History and Director of the Renaissance and Early Modern Research Group at The Open University, UK. Andrew Cunningham is former Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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