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Medieval and Early Modern Science and Medicine: Natural Philosophy

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

Atomism

The Atomists by C. C. W. Taylor (Translator)
Call Number: B225.E5 T39 1999

Leucippus and Democritus : fragments : a text and translation with a commentary
De rerum natura. 1449 by Titus Lucretius
Call Number: BAV MSS MICROFILM 647

Vatican City, Biblioteca apostolica vaticana, Cod. Ross. 884.
Of the nature of things = De Rerum Natura by Lucretius; William Ellery Leonard(Translator)
Call Number: PA6483.E5 .L4 1957b
Pierre Gassendi, 1592-1655 : lettres latines by Sylvie Taussig
Call Number: B1886 .A414 2004
Selected Works of Pierre Gassendi by Pierre Gassendi; Craig B. Brush (Translator)
Call Number: B1882.E5 B78 1972
Vie et mœurs d'Epicure by Pierre Gassendi; Sylvie Taussig (Translator)
Call Number: B573 .G3714 2006

Medieval Natural Philosophy

Aristotle, Libri Naturales (3rd quarter of the 13th century)
Detail of historiated initial with a man teaching.

British Library MS Harley 3487, f. 116

Naturalis historia by Pliny the elder
Call Number: PA6156 .P52 1944
A Dialogue on Natural Philosophy= Dragmaticon philosophiae by William of Conches; Italo Ronca (Editor, Translator); Matthew Curr (Translator)
Call Number: Q124.97 .W5513 1997
Marius on the Elements by Richard C. Dales (Editor, Translator)
Call Number: Q153 .M37 1976
The 'Opus majus' of Roger Bacon by John Henry Bridges (Editor)
Call Number: B765.B23 O2 1964
The Book of Secrets of Albertus Magnus by Michael R. Best (Editor); Frank H. Brightman (Editor)
Call Number: R128 .L5313 1999
Albertus Magnus on Animals by Kenneth F. Kitchell (Editor, Translator); Irven Michael Resnick(Editor)
Call Number: QL41 .A3413 1999
The Commentary of Albertus Magnus on Book I of Euclid's Elements of Geometry by Anthony Lo Bello (Editor)
Call Number: QA31 .A35 2003
The electronic Grosseteste
The Electronic Grosseteste was established in 1998, in order to facilitate advanced research in the life and works of Robert Grosseteste (ca. 1170-1253) .
The Dimensions of Colour by Robert Grosseteste
Nicole Oresme and The marvels of nature : a study of his De causis mirabilium with critical edition, translation, and commentary by Bert Hansen
Call Number: Q153 .O73 1985

Renaissance Natural Philosophy

Francis Bacon, Of the advancement and proficience of learning (1640)

The Book of My Life by Girolamo Cardano; Jean Stoner (Translator)
Call Number: Q143.C3 A313 2002
Catalogo dei manoscritti di Ulisse Aldrovandi, by Ludovico Frati (Editor)
Call Number: MICROFILM 1421.2

Located in the VFL.
Athanasius Kircher
Subject Search which displays VFL and Rare Books holdings.
The new organon by Francis Bacon; Lisa Jardine (Editor); Michael Silverthorne (Editor); Karl Ameriks (Contribution by); Desmond M. Clarke (Contribution by)
Call Number: B1168.E5 J3713 2000
Letters and papers of Robert Boyle
Call Number: Q143.B77 B69 1990

From the archives of the Royal Society

Located in Pius Microfilm
Fisonomia, y varios secretos de naturaleza. by Geronimo Cortes
Call Number: Accession 2012.014

Located in Pius Spec Coll Rare Bks
Francis Bacon; a bibliography of his works and Baconiana to the year 1750. by R.W. Gibson
Call Number: B1197 .G5 1950
Robert Fludd and His Philosophicall Key by Robert Fludd; Allen G. Debus (Editor)
Call Number: Q125 .F593 1979