Cancer is perhaps the modern world's most feared disease. Yet, we know relatively little about this malady's history before ...
Lire la suiteThis volume records the diversity of scholarly approaches to John Dee which have emerged since the synthetic accounts of ...
Lire la suiteThis book presents the first detailed study of one of the most important masterpieces of Renaissance cartography, Martin ...
Lire la suiteprovides an analysis of university missions over time and space. It starts out by presenting a governance framework focusing ...
Lire la suiteThis volume investigates the paradigm changes which occurred in ethics during the early modern era (1350-1600). While many ...
Lire la suiteThe quintessential Renaissance Man, Leonardo da Vinci was well aware of the fundamental importance of mathematics for architecture. ...
Lire la suiteEven if specific pieces of research (on the sources or on individual authors, such as Pico, Agrippa, Erasmus, Montaigne, ...
Lire la suiteThis monograph describes how the understanding of the geometry behind perspective evolved between the years 1435 and 1800 ...
Lire la suiteThis book is about the evolution of these machines and the inv- tors and engineers who created them from the early Renaissance ...
Lire la suiteThe authors of this volume offer a fresh assessment of how this course of study affected generations of natural philosophers, ...
Lire la suiteThis volume challenges the view that women have not contributed to the historical development of political ideas, and highlights ...
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