Universities and science in the early modern period
[Electronic Resource]
/ edited by Mordechai Feingold and Victor Navarro-Brotons
Dordrecht
: Springer,
, c2006.
viii, 309 p. ill. 25 cm.
(Archimedes
; v. 12)
"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.
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ng
Includes bibliographical references.
"Mathematics for astronomy" at universities in Copernicus' time / Grazina Rosianska --The University of Salamanca and the renaissance of astronomy during the second half of the 15th century /Jose Chabas -- Medical science and medical teachings at the University of Salamanca in the 15th century /Luis Garcia Ballester --The faculty of medicine of Valencia /Jose M. Lopez Pinero --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 / Luis Miguel Carolino & Henrique Leitao --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 /Jose Luis Peset --Spanish chemistry textbooks during late 18th century /Antonio Garcia Belmar and Jose Ramon Bertomeu Sanchez --Botany in University studies in the late 18th century : the case of Valencia University /Cristina Sendra-Mocholi --Scientific education and the crisis of the university in 18th century Barcelona / Agusti 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.
Archimedes (Dordrecht, Netherlands)
v. 12
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