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- A challenging new look at a widely recognised figure in the scientific revolution period
- A provocative revision of existing historiography on the history of medicine and natural philosophy
- Looks at how a seventeenth-century figure who was engaged in the community and activities associated with the creation of ‘modern science’ (the rise of mechanical philosophy and the triumph of experiment) might instead seek authority through an identity which relied on classical models of scholarship and eclecticism
Part of the book series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science (AUST, volume 18)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Authors and Affiliations
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University of Sydney, Sydney
S. Gaukroger
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: A Subtle and Mysterious Machine
Book Subtitle: The Medical World of Walter Charleton (1619-1707)
Authors: S. Gaukroger
Editors: Emily Booth
Series Title: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3378-8
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2005
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4020-3377-3Published: 18 October 2005
Softcover ISBN: 978-90-481-6848-4Published: 22 October 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4020-3378-0Published: 20 January 2006
Series ISSN: 1871-7381
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1958
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 300
Topics: Philosophy, general, History of Science, Epistemology, Philosophy of Medicine, History of Medicine