Renaissance meteorology Pomponazzi to Descartes

Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / Craig Martin.

Author/creator	Martin, Craig, 1972-
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press,
Description	viii, 213 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Supplemental Content	Full text available from UPCC Books History 2011 Subject Collection
Subject(s)	Meteorology--History --17th century. Science, Renaissance. Physics--Philosophy.

Contents	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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-205) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2010051487
ISBN	9781421401874 (alk. paper)
ISBN	1421401878 (alk. paper)

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