The product of an interdisciplinary research project held at the Max-Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, this volume examines the connections between the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. "Historia" was used as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines, including natural history, medicine, and antiquarianism. The introduction and the essays collected in this volume highlight a distinctive feature of the early modern descriptive sciences: the coupling of observational skills with philological learning, empiricism with erudition. Thus the volume brings to light previously unexamined links between the culture of humanism and the scientific revolution.
Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe
POMATA, GIANNETTA;
2005
Abstract
The product of an interdisciplinary research project held at the Max-Planck Institut fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin, this volume examines the connections between the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. "Historia" was used as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines, including natural history, medicine, and antiquarianism. The introduction and the essays collected in this volume highlight a distinctive feature of the early modern descriptive sciences: the coupling of observational skills with philological learning, empiricism with erudition. Thus the volume brings to light previously unexamined links between the culture of humanism and the scientific revolution.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
