Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia Some observations
October 2013
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Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance
398 19 Philosophy and the Renaissance encyclopaedia Some observations
DANIEL ANDERSSON Porphyry's Introduction to Aristotle's 'Categories', at the
very beginning of our instruction, makes much sounder suggestions, in claiming
that ...
History
HORACE AND THE POLITICS OF PYRAMIDS IN SIXTEENTH-CENTURY FRANCE
March 2013
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French Studies Bulletin
John Abernethy: Calvinist natural histories of the soul in the seventeenth century.
January 2012
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Early science and medicine
This paper looks at the relation of natural history, in its guise as an observational genre and one which tended to offer competing explanations of its phenomena, to the discourse of practical divinity. Natural history is here intended as a genre in which the practice of observation is accorded a significant place and a genre which lends itself to the accumulation of competing explanatory accounts of the phenomena ('polycausal'). In particular, it examines the relation of the cognitive and the practical with respect to a rather unusual instance of that discourse. It attempts to site the work of practical divinity vertically (to its own tradition), horizontally (to the local contexts of John Abernethy) and orthogonally (to the Baconian project of descriptive enquiry as a basis for philosophical enquiry).
Humans, Natural History, History, 17th Century, Protestantism, Scotland
Lord Henry Howard (1540-1614) An Elizabethan Life
January 2009
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Book
First full biography of the Elizabethan Henry Howard, one of the most influential noblemen of his time, tracing his chequered career and placing him in the context of Renaissance humanism.
Biography & Autobiography
Appetites, Matter and Metaphors. Aristotle, Physics 1.9 (192a22-23) and its Renaissance Commentators’
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Francis Bacon on Motion and Power, edd. G. Gigloni, S. Coreneanu, J. Lancaster and D. Jalobeanu, Springer, 2016, pp. 41-61