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Author Martin, Craig, 1972-

Title Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / Craig Martin.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-205) and index.
Contents The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.
Note Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 4, 2013).
Subject Meteorology -- History -- 17th century.
Physics -- Philosophy.
Science, Renaissance.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
ISBN 9781421401874
9781421402444 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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