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Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Martin, Craig, 1972-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Physics > Philosophy.
Science, Renaissance.
Meteorology > History > 17th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.