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The Light of Nature

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    Chapter 1 Introduction
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    Chapter 2 Development of Medical Education among the Arabic-speaking Peoples
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    Chapter 3 Gentile da Foligno and the Via Medicorum
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    Chapter 4 Some Assumptions behind Medicine for the Poor during the Reign of Louis XIV
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    Chapter 5 Buffon’s Histoire naturelle as a Work of the Enlightenment
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    Chapter 6 Adam Gottlob Schirach’s Experiments on Bees
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    Chapter 7 William Swainson: Types, Circles, and Affinities
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    Chapter 8 A Retrospect on the Historiography of the Life Sciences
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    Chapter 9 Two Astronomical Tractates of Abbo of Fleury
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    Chapter 10 Pseudo-Euclid on the Position of the Image in Reflection: Interpretations by an Anonymous Commentator, by Pena, and by Kepler
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    Chapter 11 Thomas Harriot’s Papers on the Calendar
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    Chapter 12 Thomas Harriot’s Observations of Halley’s Comet in 1607
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    Chapter 13 Animadversions on the Origins of the Microscopre
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    Chapter 14 Hemsterhuis on Mathematics and Optics
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    Chapter 15 Galileians in Sicily: a Hitherto Unpublished Correspondence of Daniele Spinola with Domenico Catalano in Messina (1650–1652)
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    Chapter 16 A Friend of Hobbes and an Early Translator of Galileo: Robert Payne of Oxford
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    Chapter 17 Descartes and the English
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    Chapter 18 From Corfu to Caledonia: The Early Travels of Charles DUPIN, 1808–1820
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    Chapter 19 A Scotswoman Abroad: Mary Somerville’s 1817 Visit to France
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    Chapter 20 Rationality and the Generalization of Scientific Style
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    Chapter 21 The Idea of the Decay of the World in the Old Testament, the Apocrypha, and the Pseudepigrapha
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    Chapter 22 Science in Antiquity: the Indian Perspective
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    Chapter 23 System-Building in the Eighteenth Century
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    Chapter 24 Elements in the Structure of Victorian Science or Cannon Revisited
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Title
The Light of Nature
Published by
Springer Science & Business Media, December 2012
DOI 10.1007/978-94-009-5119-8
ISBNs
978-9-40-095119-8, 978-9-40-108763-6
Editors

J. D. North, J. J. Roche

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