Letters on Natural Philosophy: The Scientific Correspondence of a Sixteenth-Century Pharmacist, with Related Texts Volume 77

by Camilla Erculiani

In her Letters on Natural Philosophy, published originally in Krakow in 1584, Camilla Erculiani proposed her new theory of the natural causes of the universal flood in the biblical book of Genesis. Erculiani weaves together her understanding of Aristotelian, Platonic, Galenic, and astrological traditions and combines them with her own observations of the world as seen from her apothecary shop in sixteenth-century Padua. This publication brought...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1649590024
• ISBN13: 9781649590022
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Iter Press
• Length: 201 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"