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Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes
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Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / Craig Martin.
ISBN
9781421401874 (hardcover : alk. paper)
1421401878 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Published
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Physical Description
viii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
November 21, 2011
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
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.
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