Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science
and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific
revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth
century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in
terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and
astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context of
the period. Conversely, those authors who have emphasized the
latter frequently play down the importance of the technical
scientific developments. In this book, Professor Debus amalgamates
these approaches: The exact sciences of the period are discussed in
detail, but reference is constantly made to religious and
philosophical concepts that play little part in the science of our
own time. Thus, the renewed interest in mystical texts and the
subsequent impact of alchemy, astrology, and natural magic on the
development of modern science and medicine are central to the
account. Major themes that are followed throughout the book include
the effects of humanism, the search for a new method of science,
and the dialogue between proponents of the mystical-occult world
view and the mathematical-observational approach to nature.
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