Man and Nature in the Renaissance

by Allen G. Debus

Book Overview

Man and Nature in the Renaissance offers an introduction to science and medicine during the earlier phases of the scientific revolution, from the mid-fifteenth century to the mid-seventeenth century. Renaissance science has frequently been approached in terms of the progress of the exact sciences of mathematics and astronomy, to the neglect of the broader intellectual context of the period. Conversely, those authors who have emphasized the latter...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521293286
• ISBN13: 9780521293280
• Release Date: October 1978
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 172 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Pioneering scholarship in the mystical side of the history of science

Decades ago Allen Debus made many important, key contributions to the history of science by demonstrating the central (though marginalized) place of alchemy in the development of many disciplines. This is the most concise and easily accessible of the many texts of his you will read hungrily if you take an interest in the subject. Fair and insightful treatment of many theological, mystical and occult personalities make this book an important milestone in the new direction of historical studies dealing with the so-called "scientific revolution" and its murky "prehistory."

A chronicle of Science

I almost never read books about man and nature in the renaisance, and this was one of the best ones I have read, if not one of the very best. Read up!