Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance :The Case of Learned Medicine - Ideas in Context
Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance :The Case of Learned Medicine - Ideas in Context
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Published:
8 November, 2001
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| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9780521806480 |
| ISBN10 | 0521806488 |
| Number Of Pages | 430 |
| Item Weight | 800 g |
| Product Dimensions | 152 x 229 x 29 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Cambridge University Press |
| Format | hardback |
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'… a sine qua non for all historians of medicine …' History
'… to fail to read this book would be to ignore one of the most original contributions to the intellectual history of medieval and Renaissance medicine in recent years.' Isis
'In this important book Ian Maclean has opened up what for many medical historians is one of the most abstruse and difficult areas of Renaissance medicine.' Renaissance Studies
'Maclean's book contributes to our appreciation of the vitality of the late Renaissance intellectual world.' The American Historical Review
'This is a dense, rewarding and remorselessly intelligent study of a neglected aspect of European learned culture written by one of the most original early-modern intellectual historians currently working.' History of Universities
'… provides Renaissance historians and historians of science and medicine with a valuable addition to our picture of early modern intellectual life.' Journal of the History of Medicine
Author's Bio
Ian Maclean is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and Titular Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Oxford. His many publications include The Renaissance Notion of Women (1980), Montaigne (1982), The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals (edited, with Alan Montefiore and Peter Winch; 1990), Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law (1992) and Montaigne: Philosophe (1996).