Religious confessions and the sciences in the sixteenth century.
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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword to the Series -- Preface -- Contributors and Editors -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE: CHRISTIAN CONFESSIONS AND THE SCIENCES -- Melanchthon and the Tradition of Neoplatonism -- The Jesuits and the Janus-Faced History of Natural Sciences -- Science and Religion in Royal Prussia around 1600 -- Protestant Anatomy -- Religion and Medicine: Anatomical Education at Wittenberg and Ingolstadt -- SECTION TWO: WAYS OF TRANSMISSION -- The Influence of Hasdai Crescas's Philosophy on Some Aspects of Sixteenth-Century Philosophy and Science -- Language and Medicine in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire -- SECTION THREE: JUDAISM BETWEEN TRADITION AND SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERIES -- Tradition and Innovation: Religion, Science and Jewish Culture Between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Jews between Profane and Sacred Science in Renaissance Italy: The Case of Abraham Portaleone -- Science and Religious Hermeneutics: The 'Philosophy' of Rabbi Loew of Prague -- The Relevance of Geography for the Jewish Religion -- Index of Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
This volume discusses the ways in which religious conviction and the development of the natural sciences and medicine influenced each other in the 16th century.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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