Man and Nature in the Renaissance
- ISBN-10
- 0521293286
- ISBN-13
- 9780521293280
- Category
- Science
- Pages
- 159
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1978-10-31
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Author
- Allen George Debus
Description
Considers ideologies and mutual effects of humanism, mysticism and the exact sciences, thereby integrating a study of early Scientific Revolution astronomy, mathematics and medicine with the intellectual, religious and philosophical milieu
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