Natural Particulars

Sobre el libro Natural Particulars de Anthony Grafton i Nancy S. Siraisi publicado por Penguin Usa al 2000:

Nature and the disciplines in Renaissance Europe I. Natural philosophies Number, shape and meaning in Pico´s christian cabala; The study fo the Timaeus in early renaissance Italy; Marsilio Ficino: daemonic matheamtics and the hypotenuse of the spirit; Space, light and soul in Francesco Patrizi´s Nova de universis philosophia; The Problemata as a nautral philosophical genre; The pseudo-aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle´s De animalibus in Renaissance. II. Natural disciplines Epistemology problems in Giovanni Mainardi´s commentary on Galen´s Ars parva; Introducing renaissance medicine to Tudor England; From the laboratory ot the library: alchemy according to Guglielmo Fabri; The homunculus and his forebears: wonders of art and nature; Natural particulars: medical epistemology, practice and the literature of healing springs; The formation of a scientific community: natural history in sixteenth-century Italy; Empiricism and community in early modern science and art: some comments on baths, plants and courts