Histories of science in early modern Europe: Introduction

Journal of the History of Ideas

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 33-40

  Goulding, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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EID: 31644433935     PISSN: 00225037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jhi.2006.0004     Document Type: Review

References (23)

1. Jeanne Peiffer, "France" in Writing the History of Mathematics: Its Historical Development, ed. Joseph W. Dauben and Christoph J. Scriba (Basel: Birkhäuser, 2002), 3-43, at 6.
2. On Montucla, see Noel M. Swerdlow, "Montucla's Legacy: The History of the Exact Sciences," JHI 54 (1993): 299-328.
3. Cited by Christoph J. Scriba, Menso Folkerts, and Hans Wussing, "Germany," in Writing the History of Mathematics, 109-49 at 112. Note also the brief treatment and dismissal of Renaissance histories at 110.
4. Peiffer, "France," 10.
5. For instance, Serafina Cuomo, Ancient mathematics (London and New York: Routledge, 2001).
6. Anthony Grafton, "From Apotheosis to Analysis: Some Late Renaissance Histories of Classical Astronomy," in History and the Disciplines: The Reclassification of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, ed. Donald R. Kelley (Rochester, N.Y.: University of Rochester Press, 1997), 261-76 (especially 262).
7. Owen Hannaway, "Georgius Agricola as Humanist," JHI 53 (1992): 553-60, at 553.
8. For a survey of this literature, see H. Floris Cohen, The scientific revolution: a historiographical inquiry (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 271-303.
9. On humanists as translators and commentators, see Paul L. Rose, The Italian Renaissance of Mathematics: Studies on Humanists and Mathematicians from Petrarch to Galileo (Geneva: Librairie Droz, 1975);
10. Noel M. Swerdlow, "The Recovery of the Exact Sciences of Antiquity: Mathematics, Astronomy,Geography," in Rome Reborn: The Vatican Library and Renaissance Culture, ed. Anthony Grafton (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993), 125-67.
11. See Brian W. Ogilvie, "Science," in Renaissance Historiography, ed. Jonathan Woolfson (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005), 241-69, for a comprehensive survey of scholarship in the history of Renaissance science.
12. See especially Anthony Grafton, "The New Science and the Traditions of Humanism," in The Cambridge Companion to Renaissance Humanism, ed. Jill Kraye (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996), 203-23.
13. Anthony Grafton and Lisa Jardine, From Humanism to the Humanities: Education and the Liberal Arts in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Europe (Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1986).
14. Lisa Jardine and Anthony Grafton, " 'Studied for Action': How Gabriel Harvey Read his Livy," Past and Present 129 (1990): 3-51.
15. See, for instance, Ann Blair, "Annotating and Indexing Natural Philosophy," in Books and the Sciences in History, ed. Marina Frasca-Spada and Nick Jardine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 69-89.
16. Lauren Kassell, "Reading for the Philosophers' Stone," in Books and the Sciences in History, 132-50;
17. Anthony Grafton, "John Dee Reads Books of Magic," in The Reader Revealed, ed. Sabrina Alcorn Baron (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001), 31-37.
18. Ann Blair and Anthony Grafton, "Reassessing Humanism and Science," JHI 53 (1992): 535-40.
19. Johannes Stadius, Tabulae Bergenses (Cologne, 1560). The preface, entitled "Astronomiae aetas, usus, peregrinatio, incrementum, utilitas," and occupying the first 25 pages of the work, seems to have been an important source for elements of Ramus's historical narrative.
20. See Grafton, "From Apotheosis to Analysis."
21. Allen G. Debus, "An Elizabethan History of Medical Chemistry," Annals of Science 18 (1962): 1-29.
22. Nancy Siraisi, "Anatomizing the Past: Physicians and History in Renaissance Culture," Renaissance Quarterly 53 (2000): 1-30.
23. See, most recently, Eric Ash, Power, knowledge, and expertise in Elizabethan England (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004).