Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early Modern Europe

Essays examine how the genre of historia reflects connections between the study of nature and the study of culture in early modern scholarly pursuits.

The early modern genre of historia connected the study of nature and the study of culture from the early Renaissance to the eighteenth century. The ubiquity of historia as a descriptive method across a variety of disciplines--including natural history, medicine, antiquarianism, and philology--indicates...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262162296
• ISBN13: 9780262162296
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 500 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher