Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Thornton's Medical Books, Libraries, and Collectors
This book is the standard work on the production, distribution and storage of medical literature from the earliest times. This third edition, edited by Alain Besson, is in keeping with the author's original intention and retains the basic structure of the first two editions. A new team of contributors have each provided chapters on their specialized subject to ensure a wide-ranging but detailed study. The opening chapter 'Medical Books before the Invention of Printing' now focuses on the production and transmission of medical manuscripts in the West, instead of giving a shallow treatment to the entire field of manuscript studies.
Le pouvoir des livres à la Renaissance
Huit contributions, couvrant divers domaines géographiques, de l'Europe occidentale à l'Amérique latine, visent à mettre en lumière des relations et des enjeux de pouvoir multiples, dont le livre est le centre : l'attitude des pouvoirs face au livre et à sa prolifération, les pouvoirs occultes prêtés au livre, le livre comme instrument du pouvoir ou comme contre-pouvoir.
Universities and Science in the Early Modern Period
This book includes most of the contributions presented at a conference on “Univ- sities and Science in the Early Modern Period” held in 1999 in Valencia, Spain. The conference was part of the “Five Centuries of the Life of the University of Valencia” (Cinc Segles) celebrations, and from the outset we had the generous support of the “Patronato” (Foundation) overseeing the events. In recent decades, as a result of a renewed attention to the institutional, political, social, and cultural context of scienti?c activity, we have witnessed a reappraisal of the role of the universities in the construction and development of early modern science. In essence, the following conclusions have...
