By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before modern times. This highly readable book builds on over forty years of study and analysis of early liturgical and medical writings and a wide variety of other sources.
By examining all the prevalent varieties of therapy from self-care to religious ritual, this book explores health care practices in China, before mode...
This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher during the Scientific Revolution. Coverage also explores the science and technology of early modern optics.
Della Porta's groundbreaking book, Magia Naturalis (Natural Magic), includes a prototype of the camera. Yet, because of his obsession with magic, Della Porta's scientific achievements are often forgotten. As the contributors argue, his work inspired such great minds as Johanes Kepler and Francis Bacon. After reading this book,...
This volume contains essays that examine the optical works of Giambattista Della Porta, an Italian natural philosopher du...
Through recent volumes of the scientific letters and mathematical papers series of the Academy Edition scholars have obtained a much richer textual basis on which to conduct their studies - material which allows readers to see interconnections between his philosophical and mathematical ideas which have not previously been manifested.
Through recent volumes of the scientific letters and mathematical papers series of the Academy Edition scholars have obtained a much richer textual ba...
This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the history of the book. Those with an interest in the history of science, the history of medicine and all related fields will find this work a stimulating and rewarding read.
This book presents essays by eminent scholars from across the history of medicine, early science and European history, including those expert on the h...
The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realised in Nature, Transforming Matter, Science and the Canadian Arctic, Affinity and Matter and other significant inquiries in the history of modern science.
The Romance of Science pays tribute to the wide-ranging and highly influential work of Trevor Levere, historian of science and author of Poetry Realis...
