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Speculum Arabicum : Intersecting perspectives on medieval encyclopaedism
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ISBN: 9464519223 9789464519228 Year: 2021 Publisher: Louvain-la-Neuve Institut d'études médiévales

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Research on medieval encyclopedism has generated excellent results in various fields so far, but it still suffers at times from a propensity for compartmentalization, with the result that Arabists, Byzantinists, Latinists, and Romanicists are only rarely involved in common schemes. With this regard, the project “Speculum Arabicum: Objectifying the contribution of the Arab-Muslim world to the history of sciences and ideas: the sources and resources of medieval encyclopaedism” was funded from 2012 to 2017 by an ARC– Actions de Recherche Concertées at the Université catholique de Louvain. The present volume includes 13 papers presented at the closing international symposium of the project. --Brepols


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La produzione scritta tecnica e scientifica nel Medioevo : libro e documento tra scuole e professioni : atti del Convegno internazionale di studio dell'Associazione italiana dei paleografi e diplomatisti, Fisciano, Salerno, 28-30 settembre 2009
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ISBN: 9788879885867 8879885863 Year: 2012 Volume: 5 Publisher: Spoleto : Fondazione Centro italiano di studi sull'alto Medioevo,


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The Newton papers : the strange and true Odyssey of Isaac Newton's manuscripts
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ISBN: 9780199951048 Year: 2014 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University press

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"When Isaac Newton died at 85 without a will on March 20, 1727, he left a mass of disorganized papers--upwards of 8 million words--that presented an immediate challenge to his heirs. Most of these writings, on subjects ranging from secret alchemical formulas to impassioned rejections of the Holy Trinity to notes and calculations on his core discoveries in calculus, universal gravitation, and optics, were summarily dismissed by his heirs as "not fit to be printed." Rabidly heretical, alchemically obsessed, and possibly even mad, the Newton presented in these papers threatened to undermine not just his personal reputation but the status of science itself. As a result, the private papers of the world's greatest scientist remained hidden to all but a select few for over two hundred years. In The Newton Papers, Sarah Dry divulges the story of how this secret archive finally came to light--and the complex and contradictory man it revealed. Covering a broad swath of history, Dry explores who controlled Newton's legacy, who helped uncover him, and what, finally, we know about him today, nearly three hundred years after his death. The Newton Papers presents the eclectic group of collectors, scholars, and scientists who were motivated to track down and collect Newton's private thoughts and obsessions, many of whom led extraordinary lives themselves--from economist John Maynard Keynes to Abraham Yahuda, a friend of Albert Einstein and key figure in the founding of Israel. The 300-year history of the disappearance, dispersal and eventual rediscovery of Newton's papers exposes how Newton has been made, and re-made, at the hands of unique and idiosyncratic individuals, reflecting the changing status of science over the centuries"--


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De machinis et rebus mechanicis : ein Maschinenbuch aus Italien für den König von Dänemark, 1393 - 1424
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ISBN: 8821007863 9788821007866 Year: 2006 Volume: 428-429 Publisher: Città del Vaticano : Biblioteca apostolica vaticana = Bibliotheca apostolica vaticana = Bibliothèque apostolique vaticane,


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Der Weg der Naturwissenschaft von Johannes von Gmunden zu Johannes Kepler
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ISBN: 3700113803 9783700113805 Year: 1988 Volume: 497 46 Publisher: Wien: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften,

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