Dennis Danielson
Autor de The Cambridge Companion to Milton
Sobre El Autor
Dennis Richard Danielson is Professor of English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver
Créditos de la imagen: ideacity
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But this book is much more than a simple biography, and the reader learns about the extensive intertwining of medicine, astronomy and astrology; medicine and the beginnings of toxicology (the teaches of Paracelsus); the effects of religion on just about every aspect of science (mining, for instance, was considered blasphemous because it represented digging in the bowels of Mother Earth, the region of the devil); the laborious political, religious and logistical processes involved in publishing; and the stupendous effort of decades of hand-written calculations required to produce trigonometric tables (out to the 10th or 15th decimal!) required to prove Copernicus' theories. And, of course, there is the ever-present bickering and machinations among the (primarily) Protestant schools over minute disagreements in theology which often affected patronage, friendships, and even survival.
Entertaining, informative, and very well-written, with interesting reproductions of various documents and title pages and lengthy notes.… (más)