Constructions of Cancer in Early Modern England : Ravenous Natures
Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...
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John Dee: Interdisciplinary Studies in English Renaissance Thought
This volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of ...
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Martin Waldseemüller’s 'Carta marina' of 1516 Study and Transcription of the Long Legends
This book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin ...
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Missions of Universities
provides an analysis of university missions over time and space. It starts out by presenting a governance framework focusing ...
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Moral Philosophy on the Threshold of Modernity
This volume investigates the paradigm changes which occurred in ethics during the early modern era (1350-1600). While many ...
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Nexus Network Journal : Leonardo da Vinci: Architecture and Mathematics
The quintessential Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. ...
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Renaissance Scepticisms
Even if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, ...
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The Geometry of an Art
This monograph describes how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective evolved between the years 1435 and 1800 ...
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The Machines of Leonardo Da Vinci and Franz Reuleaux
This book is about the evolution of these machines and the inv- tors and engineers who created them from the early Renaissance ...
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Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
The authors of this volume offer a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers, ...
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Virtue, Liberty, and Toleration : Political Ideas of European Women, 1400–1800
This volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...
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