Preface

Contributors

Introduction

Anthony Grafton

Nancy Siraisi

I Natural Philosophies

Number, Shape, and Meaning in Pico's Christian Cabala: The Upright Tsade, The Closed Mem, and the Gaping Jaws of Azazel

Brain P. Copenhaver

The Study of the Timaeus in Early Renaissance Italy

James Hankins

Marsilio Ficino: Daemonic Mathematics and the Hypotenuse of the Spirit

Michael J. B. Allen

Space, Light, and Soul in Francesco Patrizi's Nova De Universis Philosophia (1591)

Luc Deitz

The Problemata as a Natural Philosophical Genre

Ann Blair

The Pseudo-Aristotelian Problemata and Aristotle's De Animalibus in the Renaissance

John Monfasani

II Natural Disciplines

Epistemological Problems in Giovanni Mainardi's Commentary on Galen's Ars Parva

Daniela Mugnai Carrara

``A Diet for Barbarians'': Introducing Renaissance Medicine to Tudor England

Vivian Nutton

From the Laboratory to the Library: Alchemy According to Guglielmo Fabri

Chiara Crisciani

The Homunculus and His Forebears: Wonders of Art and Nature

William Newman

Natural Particulars: Medical Epistemology, Practice, and the Literature of Healing Springs

Katharine Park

The Formation of a Scientific Community: Natural History in Sixteenth-Century Italy

Paula Findlen

Empiricism and Community in Early Modern Science and Art: Some Comments on Baths, Plants, and Courts

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann

Index