Science and the arts in the Renaissance / edited by John W. Shirley and F. David Hoeniger.

Title & Author:

Science and the arts in the Renaissance / edited by John W. Shirley and F. David Hoeniger.

Publication:

Washington, D.C. : Folger Shakespeare Library ; London : Associated University Presses, 1985.

Description:

220 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Series:

Folger Institute symposia

Notes:
Based an papers presented at a symposium held at the Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies, Oct. 1978, Co-sponsored the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of History and Technology.
"Folger books."
Includes bibliographical references.
Science and the arts in the Renaissance : the search for truth and certainty, old and new / Alistair C. Crombie -- Medicine, philosophy, and humanism in Renaissance Italy / Jerome L. Bylebyl -- Art and science : the Paracelsian vision / P.M. Rattansi -- The science of sound and musical practice / Claude V. Palisca -- Science and navigation in Renaissance England / John W. Shirley -- The involvement of artists in Renaissance science / James Ackerman -- How plants and animals were studied in the mid-sixteenth century / F. David Hoeniger -- The organism as a symbol : an innovation of art / Philip C. Ritterbush -- The Renaissance development of scientific illustration / Samuel Y. Edgerton, Jr. -- Diagrams and dynamics : mathemetical perspectives on Edgerton's thesis / Michael S. Mahoney.

ISBN:

091801669X
9780918016690

Subject:

Science and the arts.
Arts, Renaissance.
Science, Renaissance.
Art.
Sciences et arts.
Arts de la Renaissance.
Sciences de la Renaissance.
Kunst.
Wetenschap.
Renaissance.
Sciences et arts Renaissance Congrès.
Art de la Renaissance.

Form/genre:

Congress
proceedings (reports)
Conference papers and proceedings
Essays.
Actes de congrès.

Added entries:

Shirley, John W., 1908-1988, editor.
Hoeniger, F. David, editor.
Shirley, John William, 1908-
Hoeniger, F. David.
Folger Institute of Renaissance and Eighteenth-Century Studies.
National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Folger Institute symposia.

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Location: Library main 96943
Call No.: ID:85-B14640
Status: Available

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