Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

110 Shank esca Italiana, 2nd ed. (Florence: Società Dantesca Italiana 1960), 185–89, esp. 186; also Tiziana Suarez- Nani, “Dante ...

Natural Knowledge in the Latin Middle Ages 111 Technology, and Medicine: An Encyclopedia, ed. Thomas Glick, Steven J. Livesey, F ...

112 Shank Aquinas, The Division and Methods of the Sciences, 38–39. Edith D. Sylla, “The Fate of the Oxford Calculatory Traditi ...

Natural Knowledge in the Latin Middle Ages 113 Hendrik Lagerlund, “The Systematization of Modal Syllogistics,” in Modal Syllogi ...

114 Shank man,” in José Chabás and Bernard R. Goldstein, Archimedes, eds., The Alfonsine Tables of Toledo (Dordrecht: Kluwer Aca ...

Natural Knowledge in the Latin Middle Ages 115 NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984), 2:1619–20; Thomas Aquinas, prologue to the ...

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117 The term “natural history” has a quaint and old- fashioned air about it, no doubt partly on account of its mental associatio ...

118 Harrison Franz’s observations convey to the modern- day reader something of the unfamiliar boundaries of the disciplines as ...

Natural History 119 consciously focused on the provisions of cures than were works on ani- mals, and for this reason were more c ...

120 Harrison Topsell thus announces on his title page that “the story of euery Beast is amplifi ed with Narrations out of Script ...

Natural History 121 written in the early Christian period.^12 These works were actually aids to the allegorical interpretation o ...

122 Harrison specimen that answered to the description. Thus scholars whose original interests had been solely philological foun ...

Natural History 123 tury, one author observed, he would had to have written a new history of animals, for “the fi rst Tome of Zo ...

124 Harrison appear in writings of Plinius, Cardanus, Albertus, and divers other of the Arabians, being taught with much fabulou ...

Natural History 125 stressed the importance of both social status and institutional setting in legitimating observation claims. ...

126 Harrison was the premise of the Physiologus and the bestiaries, of medieval alle- gorical readings of scripture, and of the ...

Natural History 127 examples of this munifi cence in our age to give me comfort: Ferdinand the Emperor and Cosimus Medices, Prin ...

128 Harrison teenth century, these gardens sprang up all over Europe and were regarded as “living catalogues of plants, living c ...

Natural History 129 Hence the justifi cation for the study of animals had to be sought else- where, and in particular, in the re ...