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Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Academies

Library and internet resources for research on Medieval and Early Modern science and medicine

Italian

Italian academies of the sixteenth century by D.S. Chambers and F. Quiviger (Editors)
Call Number: AS215 .I83 1995

Giambattista Della Porta, De humana physiognomia (1586): 29.

The Eye of the Lynx: Galileo, his friends, and the beginnings of modern natural history by David Freedberg
Call Number: Q127.I8 F74 2002
Federico Cesi e i primi Lincei : catalogo della mostra by Giovanni Morello (Editor)
Call Number: Q143.C38 M67 1986
Located in Pius Spec Coll VFL Ref
The Origins of the Platonic Academy of Florence by Arthur M. Field
Call Number: DG735.6 .F47 1988
The Gallery of Memory:: literary and iconographic models in the age of the printing press by Lina Bolzoni; Jeremy Parzen (Translator)
Call Number: Z155 .B6413 2001
The Accademia Veneziana

Royal Society

The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the story of a scientific revolution by John Gribbin
Call Number: Q41 .G75 2007
Henry Oldenburg: shaping the Royal Society by Marie Boas Hall
Call Number: Q143.O4 H35 2002
History of the Royal Society by Thomas Sprat
Call Number: Q41.L86 S77 1959
Publication Date: 1667
Edited with critical apparatus in 1959 by Jackson I. Cope and Harold Whitmore Jones.
Women, Medicine and Science, 1500-1700 by Lynette Hunter; Sarah Hutton (Editor)
Call Number: Q41.L85 W66 1997

Conference Papers

On Renaissance academies by Marianne Pade (Editor)
Call Number: AS217.R6 O574 2011
proceedings of the international conference "From the Roman Academy to the Danish Academy in Rome = Dall'Accademia Romana all'Accademia di Danimarca a Roma" : the Danish Academy in Rome, 11-13 October 2006