Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes /

Martin, Craig, 1972-

Renaissance meteorology : Pomponazzi to Descartes / Craig Martin. - 1 online resource (224 pages) : illustrations

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-205) and index.

The epistemology of meteorology : conjecture and provisional knowledge -- The ends of weather : teleology in Renaissance meteorology -- The Ferrarese earthquakes and the employment of learned meteorology -- The chymistry of weather -- Niccolo Cabeo's meteorology as the basis for a new aristotelianism -- Causation and method in Cartesian meteorology.

9781421402444


Meteorology--History--17th century.
Physics--Philosophy.
Science, Renaissance.


Electronic books.

QC855 / .M37 2011

551.5094/09032