Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes /

Martin, Craig, 1972-

Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / Craig Martin. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, (c)2011. - 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages :) : illustrations

Includes bibliographies and index.

The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.



9781421402444


Physics--Philosophy.
Science, Renaissance.
Physics--Philosophy.
Science, Renaissance.


Electronic Books.

QC855 / .R463 2011