Author: Harald ValleriusPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : la
Pages : 24
Book Description
Historia vitæ humanæ
Author: Harald ValleriusHistoria
Author: Gianna PomataPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262162296
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 501
Book Description
Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits. The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines--including natural history, medicine, antiquarianism, and philology--indicates how closely intertwined these scholarly pursuits were in the early modern period. The essays collected in this volume demonstrate that historia can be considered a key epistemic tool of early modern intellectual practices. Focusing on the actual use of historia across disciplines, the essays highlight a distinctive feature of early modern descriptive sciences: the coupling of observational skills with philological learning, empiricism with erudition. Thus the essays bring to light previously unexamined links between the culture of humanism and the scientific revolution. The contributors, from a range of disciplines that echoes the broad scope of early modern historia, examine such topics as the development of a new interest in historical method from the Renaissance artes historicae to the eighteenth-century tension between "history" and "system"; shifts in Aristotelian thought paving the way for revaluation of historia as descriptive knowledge; the rise of the new discipline of natural history; the uses of historia in anatomical and medical investigation and the writing of history by physicians; parallels between the practices of collecting and presenting information in both natural history and antiquarianism; and significant examples of the ease with which early seventeenth-century antiquarian scholars moved from studies of nature to studies of culture.
Humanae Vitae Forty Years On
Author: G. J. WoodallPublisher: Damaris Publishing
ISBN: 9781871217780
Category : Birth control
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Humanae Vitae
Author: Humanae Vitae
Author: A History of Curiosity
Author: Justin StaglPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136645365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
First Published in 2002. A History of Curiosity examines the early methodology of anthropological and social research from a criticalhistorical perspective. The three principal methods of research, travel, the survey and the collection of significant objects, are studied in the context of the social conditions and intellectual trends of early modern times. The author's grasp of the vast, often obscure, but highly interesting body of literature which emerged in the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries commands the attention of a wide readership outside purely academic boundaries. He weaves together a series of separate studies, emphasising links between the figures, the philosophies and the literatures of early modern times; links which have previously only been suspected. In focussing on the ars apodemica, or art of travelling'', a body of formal instructions on how to travel, observe and record the information gathered, the author demonstrates the origins of the characteristic inquisitive and systematizing spirit of the modern West.
Too Much to Know
Author: Ann M. BlairPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300168497
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
The flood of information brought to us by advancing technology is often accompanied by a distressing sense of "information overload," yet this experience is not unique to modern times. In fact, says Ann M. Blair in this intriguing book, the invention of the printing press and the ensuing abundance of books provoked sixteenth- and seventeenth-century European scholars to register complaints very similar to our own. Blair examines methods of information management in ancient and medieval Europe as well as the Islamic world and China, then focuses particular attention on the organization, composition, and reception of Latin reference books in print in early modern Europe. She explores in detail the sophisticated and sometimes idiosyncratic techniques that scholars and readers developed in an era of new technology and exploding information.
Old Age and Disease in Early Modern Medicine
Author: Daniel SchäferPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317324099
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 183
Book Description
This book takes a thematic look at the historical roots of the debate surrounding old age and disease.
L'humanae vitae : 40 anni dopo
Author: Theatrvm Vitae Humanae
Author: Jean Jacques BoissardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Conduct of life
Languages : la
Pages : 266
Book Description