Books+ Search Results
Universities and science in the early modern period
Title
Universities and science in the early modern period / edited by Mordechai Feingold and Victor Navarro-Brotons.
ISBN
1402039743 (hd. bd.)
Published
Dordrecht : Springer, c2006.
Physical Description
viii, 309 p. : some ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on "Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period" held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain"--Introd.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 21, 2006
Series
Archimedes ; v. 12
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
"Mathematics for astronomy" at universities in Copernicus' time / Grazina Rosińska
The University of Salamanca and the renaissance of astronomy during the second half of the 15th century / José Chabás
Medical science and medical teachings at the University of Salamanca in the 15th century / Luis García Ballester
The faculty of medicine of Valencia / José M. López Piñero
The cultivation of astronomy in Spanish universities in the latter half of the 16th century / Victor Navarro-Brotons
The Sphere of Jacques du Chevreul: astronomy at the University of Paris in the 1620s / Roger Ariew
Lectures and practices: the variety of mathematical and mechanical teaching at the University of Uppsala in the 17th century / Maija Kallinen
Mathematical research in Italian universities in the modern era / Maria Teresa Borgato
Universities, academies, and sciences in the modern age / Luigi Pepe
Natural philosophy and mathematics in Portuguese universities, 1550-1650 / Luís Miguel Carolino & Henrique Leitão
Venetian policy toward the University of Padua and scientific progress during the 18th century / Piero del Negro
Candide in Caledonia: the culture of science in the Scottish universities, 1690-1805 / Paul Wood
The sciences at the University of Rome in the 18th century / Ugo Baldini
Enlightenment and renovation in the Spanish university / José Luis Peset
Spanish chemistry textbooks during late 18th century / Antonio García Belmar and José Ramón Bertomeu Sánchez
Botany in University studies in the late 18th century : the case of Valencia University / Cristina Sendra-Mocholí
Scientific education and the crisis of the university in 18th century Barcelona / Agustí Nieto-Galan & Antoni Roca-Rosell
The theories of Copernicus and Newton in the Viceroyship of Nueva Granada and the Audiencia de Caracas during the 18th century / Luis Carlos Arboleda Aparicio & Diana Soto Arango.
Subjects
Also listed under
Bookmark As
Citation
