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Poison Trials Wonder Drugs, Experiment, and the Battle for Authority in Renaissance Science

Rankin Alisha

ISBN: PB: 9780226744858, ISBN: HB: 9780226744711, University of Chicago Press, January 2021
312 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 38 halftones, 1 table

In 1524, Pope Clement VII gave two condemned criminals to his physician to test a promising new antidote. After each convict ate a marzipan cake poisoned with deadly aconite, one of them received the antidote, and lived – the other died in agony. In...

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Anthropology

Polymath A Cultural History from Leonardo da Vinci to Susan Sontag

Burke Peter

ISBN: HB: 9780300250022, Yale University Press, September 2020
352 pp., 23.4x15.2 cm, 24 colour illus.

From Leonardo da Vinci and John Dee to Oliver Sacks and Susan Sontag, polymaths have moved the frontiers of knowledge. Nonetheless, in our current age of specialization, polymaths are often remembered for only one part of their varied achievements....

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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 1 A Critical Edition

von Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226651385, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
632 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 1 halftone, 64 tables

Volume 1 of this critical edition includes a note on the text from the Humboldt in English team, an introduction by editors Vera M. Kutzinski and Ottmar Ette, a preface to the first edition by Alexander von Humboldt, and the translation of Volumes 1...

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Political Essay on the Kingdom of New Spain, Volume 2 A Critical Edition

von Humboldt Alexander

ISBN: HB: 9780226651552, University of Chicago Press, January 2020
560 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 180 tables

Volume 2 of this critical edition includes the translation of Volumes 3 and 4 of the second, revised French edition of Alexander von Humboldt's "Essai politique sur le royaume de de Nouvelle Espagne" from 1825 to 1827 as well as notes, supplements, i...

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Pursuit of Harmony Kepler on Cosmos, Confession, and Community

Rothman Aviva

ISBN: HB: 9780226496979, University of Chicago Press, December 2017
336 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 18 halftones

A committed Lutheran excommunicated from his own church, a friend to Catholics and Calvinists alike, a layman who called himself a "priest of God", a Copernican in a world where Ptolemy still reigned, a man who argued at the same time for the superio...

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Private Doubt, Public Dilemma Religion and Science Since Jefferson and Darwin

Thomson Keith

ISBN: HB: 9780300203677, Yale University Press, July 2015
224 pp., 21x14 cm

Each age has its own crisis-our modern experience of science-religion conflict is not so very different from that experienced by our forebears, Keith Thomson proposes in this thoughtful book. He considers the ideas and writings of Thomas Jefferson an...

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World

Power of Knowledge How Information and Technology Made the Modern World

Black Jeremy

ISBN: PB: 9780300208672, ISBN: HB: 9780300167955, Yale University Press, June 2015
448 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm

Information is power. For more than five hundred years the success or failure of nations has been determined by a country's ability to acquire knowledge and technical skill and transform them into strength and prosperity. Leading historian Jeremy Bla...

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Biography & Memoires

Pure Intelligence The Life of William Hyde Wollaston

Usselman Melvyn C.

ISBN: HB: 9780226245737, University of Chicago Press, Synthesis, May 2015
424 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 37 halftones, 32 line drawings, 10 tables

William Hyde Wollaston made an astonishing number of discoveries in an astonishingly varied number of fields: platinum metallurgy, the existence of ultraviolet radiation, the chemical elements palladium and rhodium, the amino acid cystine, and the ph...

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General

Putting Science in Its Place Geographies of Scientific Knowledge

Livingstone David N.

ISBN: PB: 9780226102849, ISBN: HB: 9780226487229, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
244 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm, 31 halftones, 5 maps

We are accustomed to thinking of science and its findings as universal. After all, one atom of carbon plus two of oxygen yields carbon dioxide in Amazonia as well as in Alaska; a scientist in Bombay can use the same materials and techniques to challe...

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Passionate Triangle

Zorach Rebecca

ISBN: HB: 9780226989396, University of Chicago Press, July 2011
280 pp., 24x16 cm, 86 halftones, 8 colour illus.

Triangles abounded in the intellectual culture of early modern Europe – the Christian Trinity was often mapped as a triangle, for instance, and perspective, a characteristic artistic technique, is based on a triangular theory of vision. Renaissance a...

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