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This collective volume in the history of early-modern science and medicine investigates the transfer of knowledge between Germany and Scotland focusing on the Scottish mathematician and physician Duncan Liddel of Aberdeen. It offers a contextualized study of his life and work in the cultural and institutional frame of the northern European Renaissance, as well as a reconstruction of his scholarly networks and of the scientific debates in the time of post-Copernican astronomy, Melanchthonian humanism and Paracelsian controversies.
Contributors are: Sabine Bertram, Duncan Cockburn, Laura Di Giammatteo, Mordechai Feingold, Karin Friedrich, Elizabeth Harding, John Henry, Richard Kirwan, Jane Pirie, Jonathan Regier.
Contents
PART 1 Liddel's World
1 Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European Renaissance
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
2 Confabulatory Life
Mordechai Feingold
3 The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and Physician
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
PART 2 Mathematics, Medicine and Epistemology
4 A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel's Time
John Henry
5 Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of Knowledge
Jonathan Regier
6 Liddel's Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of Ethics
Laura Di Giammatteo
PART 3 Academic Life and Higher Education
7 It's Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel's Helmstedt
Richard Kirwan
8 Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel's Helmstedt
Elizabeth Harding
9 Liddel and the University of Aberdeen
Duncan Cockburn
PART 4 New Sources
10 Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600
Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier
11 Liddel's Oratio de praestantia mathematicarum
Pietro Daniel Omodeo
PART 5 Bibliographical Reconstructions
12 Reconstructing Liddel's Library at Aberdeen
Jane Pirie
13 Liddel's Published and Unpublished Works
Sabine Bertram