| Contents |
Remapping knowledge, reshaping institutions / Luce Giard -- The history of science and the Renaissance science of history / Stephen Pumfrey -- Rhetoric and science/rhetoric of science/rhetoric as science / Maurice Slawinski -- Natural philosophy and its public concerns / Julian Martin -- The Church and the new philosophy / Peter Dear -- Society, culture and the dissemination of learning / Paolo L. Rossi -- The challenge of practical mathematics / J.A. Bennett -- Doctors and healers : popular culture and the medical profession / John Henry -- The rationalwitchfinder : conscience, demonological naturalism and popular superstitions / Stuart Clark -- Astrology, religion and politics in counter-Reformation Rome / Germana Ernst -- Astrology in early modern England : the making of a vulgar knowledge / Patrick Curry. |
