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Girolamo Mercuriale (1530-1606) was a humanist and doctor with a European reputation. In this volume experts from around the world reconstruct his career within its historical and cultural context, and assess his scientific output, which ranged from...

The relationships between science and philosophy in the second half of the 19th century, and in particular epistemology of science in this extraordinary period in the history of thought, are areas deserving greater research. For this reason the...

This book explores the creation of a new science, molecular biology, in the intellectual, social and cultural contexts of the Atomic age. It follows the trajectories of several physicists who began to study life, invented new instruments and social...

Spallanzani’s studies on regenerations are seen for the first time in the light of his twenty-five recently published «laboratory notebooks». The reconstruction of his investigations, started in 1765 and never finished, clarifies why the planned...

This work describes the career of Elie Diodati (1576-1661), ‘avocat au parlement’ who corresponded with the greatest intellectual personalities of his time. Believing in a science that should finally free itself of its Aristotelian yoke, he saw in...