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Preface

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Notes on contributors

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Introduction J. V. Field and Frank A. J. L. James

1. Greek science in the sixteenth-century Renaissance Vivian Nutton

2. 'With the rules of life and an enema': Leonardo Fioravanti's medical primitivism William Eamon

3. The cutting edge of a revolution? Medicine and natural history near the shores of the North Sea Harold J. Cook

4. Science and technology during the Scientific Revolution: an empirical approach Richard S. Westfall

5. Mathematics and the craft of painting: Piero della Francesca and perspective J. V. Field

6. Johannes Hevelius and the visual language of astronomy Mary G. Winkler and Albert van Helden

7. Mathematical sciences and military technology: the Ordnance Office in the reign of Charles II Frances Willmoth

8. Between ars and philosophia naturalis: reflections on the historiography of early modern mechanics Alan Gabbey

9. The conscience of Robert Boyle: functionalism, 'dysfunctionalism' and the task of historical understanding Michael Hunter

10. Clandestine Stoic concepts in mechanical philosphy: the problem of electrical attraction Gad Freudenthal

11. Achemy in the Newtonian circle: personal acquaintances and the problem of the late phase of Isaac Newtons's alchemy Karin Figala and Ulrich Petzold

12. Newton's subtle matter: the Opticks queries and the mechinical philosophy R. W. Home

13. Huygens's reaction to Newton's gravitational theory Roberto de A. Martins

14. The reception of Newton's Opticks in Italy Paolo Casini

15. Marsigli, Benedict XIV and the Bolognese Institute of Sciences Giorgio Dragoni

Afterword: retrospection on the Scientific Revolution A. Rupert Hall

Bibliography

Index.