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Wrestling with nature : from omens to science / edited by Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank.
- Title
- Wrestling with nature : from omens to science / edited by Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank.
- Publication
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | Q125 .W86 2011 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 416 p. : ill., map; 24 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Natural knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia / Francesca Rochberg -- Natural knowledge in the classical world / Daryn Lahoux -- Natural knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages / Jon McGinnis -- Natural knowledge in the Latin Middle Ages / Michael H. Shank -- Natural history / Peter Harrison -- Mixed mathematics / Peter Dear -- Natural philosophy / John L. Heilbron -- Science and medicine / Ronald L. Numbers -- Science and technology / Ronald Kline -- Science and religion / Jon H. Roberts -- Science, pseudoscience, and science falsely so-called / Ronald L. Numbers & Daniel P. Thurs -- Scientific methods / Daniel P. Thurs -- Science and the public / Bernard Lightman -- Science and place / David N. Livingstone.
- ISBN
- 9780226317816 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 0226317811 (cloth : alk. paper)
- 9780226317830 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 0226317838 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2010036527
- OCLC
- 660088066
- SCSB-12689983
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library