Frontispiece |
Preface |
List of illustrations |
Notes on contributors |
Abbreviations |
Introduction / J. V. Field ; Frank A. J. L. James |
Greek science in the sixteenth-century Renaissance / Vivian Nutton1: |
'With the rules of life and an enema': Leonardo Fioravanti's medical primitivism / William Eamon2: |
The cutting edge of a revolution? Medicine and natural history near the shores of the North Sea / Harold J. Cook3: |
Science and technology during the Scientific Revolution: an empirical approach / Richard S. Westfall4: |
Mathematics and the craft of painting: Piero della Francesca and perspective / 5: |
Johannes Hevelius and the visual language of astronomy / Mary G. Winkler ; Albert van Helden6: |
Mathematical sciences and military technology: the Ordnance Office in the reign of Charles II Frances / Willmoth7: |
Between ars and philosophia naturalis: reflections on the historiography of early modern mechanics / Alan Gabbey8: |
The conscience of Robert Boyle: functionalism, 'dysfunctionalism' and the task of historical understanding / Michael Hunter9: |
Clandestine Stoic concepts in mechanical philosphy: the problem of electrical attraction / Gad Freudenthal10: |
Achemy in the Newtonian circle: personal acquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newtons's alchemy / Karin Figala ; Ulrich Petzold11: |
Newton's subtle matter: the Opticks queries and the mechinical philosophy / R. W. Home12: |
Huygens's reaction to Newton's gravitational theory / Roberto de A. Martins13: |
The reception of Newton's Opticks in Italy / Paolo Casini14: |
Marsigli, Benedict XIV and the Bolognese Institute of Sciences / Giorgio Dragoni15: |
Afterword: retrospection on the Scientific Revolution / A. Rupert Hall |
Bibliography |
Index |
Mathematical sciences and military technology: the Ordnance Office in the reign of / Charles II Frances Willmoth |
Achemy in the Newtonian circle: personal acquaintances and the problem of the late phase / Isaac Newtons's alchemy Karin Figala |