Science, Culture, and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe

Science, Culture, and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe
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Download or read book Science, Culture, and Popular Belief in Renaissance Europe written by Stephen Pumfrey and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, ranging widely across the cultural and geographical terrain of Renaissance Europe, have been specifically written by 12 established scholars from Italy, France, Britain, and North America, who review for general readers, and advance for those beginning research, the current understanding of traditional disciplines and practices and the emerging empirical and mathematical science. Distributed in the US and Canada by St. Martin's. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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