Science of Naples: Making knowledge in Italy's pre-eminent city, 1500-1800
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781800086746
ISBN-10: 1800086741
Pagini: 294
Ilustrații: 27 colour photo-halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
ISBN-10: 1800086741
Pagini: 294
Ilustrații: 27 colour photo-halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.56 kg
Editura: UCL Press
Colecția UCL Press
Cuprins
List of contributors
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Science of Early Modern Naples: A Missing City?
Part I: Neapolitan Science and its Institutions
1 ‘“Attenta cura a mille bei secreti di natura”: Ferrante Imperato’s Collection between Scientific Specimens and Natural Marvels’
Daniela Carraciolo
2 ‘Political Science in the Settecento University of Naples’
Felix Waldmann
Part II: Environment, Disaster and Disease in the Bay of Naples
3 ‘Giambattista Della Porta’s De aëris transmutationibus: Natural Philosophy and the Earth Sciences’
Alfonso Paollela
4 ‘“Miserable land, burnt by fire and submerged in water”’: The 1631 Eruption of Vesuvius’
Lorenza Gianfrancesco
5 ‘The effects of plague on medicine: the choices and dialogue among the novatores’
Silvana D’Alessio
Part III: Naples and the Early Modern World
6 ‘Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern of Seventeenth-Century Naples: Johann Daniel Major’s View from Germany’
James Clifton
7 ‘Chinese Medicine as a Mirror of Neapolitan experimentalism: A case study of Parere (1681) by Leonardo di Capua (1617–1695)’
Daniel Canaris
8 ‘Courtly Exchange between Bourbon Naples and Hanoverian London after the French Revolution: Culture, Chemistry and the Herculaneum Papyri’
Frank A.J.L. James
IV: Neapolitan History in the Present Age
9 ‘“The Art of Healing, Healing through Art”: Art, Medicine and Science at the Hospital of the Incurables of Naples’
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Science of Early Modern Naples: A Missing City?
Part I: Neapolitan Science and its Institutions
1 ‘“Attenta cura a mille bei secreti di natura”: Ferrante Imperato’s Collection between Scientific Specimens and Natural Marvels’
Daniela Carraciolo
2 ‘Political Science in the Settecento University of Naples’
Felix Waldmann
Part II: Environment, Disaster and Disease in the Bay of Naples
3 ‘Giambattista Della Porta’s De aëris transmutationibus: Natural Philosophy and the Earth Sciences’
Alfonso Paollela
4 ‘“Miserable land, burnt by fire and submerged in water”’: The 1631 Eruption of Vesuvius’
Lorenza Gianfrancesco
5 ‘The effects of plague on medicine: the choices and dialogue among the novatores’
Silvana D’Alessio
Part III: Naples and the Early Modern World
6 ‘Kunst- und Naturalien-Kammern of Seventeenth-Century Naples: Johann Daniel Major’s View from Germany’
James Clifton
7 ‘Chinese Medicine as a Mirror of Neapolitan experimentalism: A case study of Parere (1681) by Leonardo di Capua (1617–1695)’
Daniel Canaris
8 ‘Courtly Exchange between Bourbon Naples and Hanoverian London after the French Revolution: Culture, Chemistry and the Herculaneum Papyri’
Frank A.J.L. James
IV: Neapolitan History in the Present Age
9 ‘“The Art of Healing, Healing through Art”: Art, Medicine and Science at the Hospital of the Incurables of Naples’