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history of science

Book Review: More than Meets the Eye — “Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge”

Readers interested in early modern science, Renaissance studies, or Galileo will undoubtedly savor this trailblazing work of history.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Galileo Galilei, Galileo’s Idol: Gianfrancesco Sagredo and the Politics of Knowledge, Gianfrancesco Sagredo, history of science, Renaissance, University of Chicago

Book Review: In the Dutch Golden Age – When Science Becomes Profitable

Cutting edge scholar Dániel Margócsy has penned a fascinating study about the early collisions of art, profit, and science.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: Commercial Visions, Dániel Margócsy, Dutch History, History of Medicine, history of science, Trade

Book Review: A Whirlwind Journey from Memory to Reason — Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science

“Notebooks, English Virtuosi, and Early Modern Science” makes a profound claim about the need for cognitive restructuring in the face of information overload.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Review Tagged: 17th-century, England, English Virtuosi and Early Modern Science, history of science, history of the book, Justin Grosslight, Notebooks, Richard Yeo

Author Interview: Scholar Avner Ben-Zaken — Crafting a Unified History of Science

Intellectual frameworks such as “the rise of Europe,” “the decline of the East,” or “the clash of civilizations,” tell us more about the laziness of the human mind than they do about history.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Interview Tagged: Avner Ben-Zaken, Cross-Cultural Scientific Exchanges in the Eastern Mediterranean 1560-1660, history of science, Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism

Book Review: “Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” — Rewriting the History of Ideas

“Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān” is a mesmerizing study that will enchant anyone interested in interdisciplinary, cross-cultural explorations of the history of science that transform the way we look at the past and the present.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Review, Technology and the Arts, World Books Tagged: Avner Ben-Zaken, cross-cultural, history of science, Johns Hopkins University Press, Reading Ḥayy Ibn-Yaqẓān: A Cross-Cultural History of Autodidacticism

Book Review: Females on the Frontier of Medicine — Healers in Early Modern Germany

In her groundbreaking study, Tufts University professor Alisha Rankin essentially revises the history of medicine by showing that women, presumed to be marginal in the development early modern medicine, were actually major players.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured Tagged: Alisha Rankin, history of science, Panaceia’s Daughters: Noblewomen as Healers in Early Modern Germany, University of Chicago Press

Book Review: “Picturing the Book of Nature” — Empowering the Visual

Given the flood of publications on early modern natural history over the last two decades, the detailed and strikingly illustrated Picturing the Book of Nature represents a herculean undertaking.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured Tagged: history of science, Humanity Anatomy, Image, Medical Botany, Picturing the Book of Nature, Sachiko Kusukawa, Sixteenth-Century, Text

Fuse Book Review: Unearthing the Lost Culture of Mathematics

Elegantly written, cogently argued, and filled with trenchant artistic analyses, Alexander Marr’s book exemplifies interdisciplinary studies at their best.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Books, Featured, Technology and the Arts Tagged: Alexander Marr, Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the Mathematical Culture of Late Renaissance Italy, history of science, Mutio Oddi

Book Review: A Brave New Perspective on the Arts and Sciences — “Galileo’s Muse”

“Galileo’s Muse” is a gem of a book: shedding new light on a figure as well-examined as Galileo is no simple task. Author Mark Peterson does so with aplomb, while also telling a fascinating story of the evolution of mathematics and the arts.

By: Justin Grosslight Filed Under: Arts and Sciences, Books, Featured, Technology and the Arts, Visual Arts Tagged: arts, Galileo's Muse, history of science, humanities, Mark Peterson, mathematics, science

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