Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes

• Main Author: Martin, Craig
• Format: eBook Book
• Language: English
• Published: Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press 2011
• Edition: 1
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Europe; History; Meteorology; Meteorology & Climatology; Meteorology > History > 17th century; Physics; Physics > Philosophy; SCIENCE; Science, Renaissance
• ISBN: 9781421401874; 1421401878; 1421402440; 9781421402444

Craig Martin takes a careful look at how Renaissance scientists analyzed and interpreted rain, wind, and other natural phenomena like meteors and earthquakes and their impact on the great thinkers of the scientific revolution. Martin argues that meteorology was crucial to the transformation that too...

Table of Contents:

• Cover Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. The Epistemology of Meteorology Chapter 2. Teleology in Renaissance Meteorology Chapter 3. The Ferrarese Earthquakes and the Employment of Learned Meteorology Chapter 4. The Chymistry of Weather Chapter 5. Niccolò Cabeo’s Meteorology as the Basis for a New Aristotelianism Chapter 6. Causation and Method in Cartesian Meteorology Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index
• Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Epistemology of Meteorology -- Chapter 2. Teleology in Renaissance Meteorology -- Chapter 3. The Ferrarese Earthquakes and the Employment of Learned Meteorology -- Chapter 4. The Chymistry of Weather -- Chapter 5. Niccolò Cabeo's Meteorology as the Basis for a New Aristotelianism -- Chapter 6. Causation and Method in Cartesian Meteorology -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z