Science in Culture, c.350 – c.1750 – serie
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Mola, False Conception, and False Pregnancy in British Medicine, 1550–1850
Inbunden, 2026
1333 kr
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When reproduction defied certainty, it unsettled medicine, law, and belief. This book reveals how ambiguous pregnancies reshaped knowledge, emotion, and the cultural meaning of conception across centuries.Across the long durée of the early-modern period, British medical practitioners and society at …
Meditation, Invention, and Designing Thought in the Augustinian Middle Ages
Inbunden, 2025
1267 kr
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A fresh perspective on how early scholars perceived the cosmos and the nature of knowledge through a tour-de-force study of the central role geometry played in medieval creativity.Geometry, rhetoric and creativity were intricately linked in medieval thought. Early thinkers integrated mathematical …
Magic Tricks and the Art of Deception in Late Medieval Europe
Inbunden, 2027
1415 kr
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The first comprehensive account of magic tricks in medieval Europe, revealing their place in recipe literature, manuscript culture, illusionist magic, material knowledge and late medieval cultures of experimentation and play.The Tollemache Book of Secrets, a manuscript compiled around 1500, records …
