Isis Current Bibliography 2006, Vol. 97 - History of Science Society

64 330. Renaissance Western European contexts
447–472; W. WILDGEN, “La filosofia di Bruno come guida
ad una semiotica della scienza moderna,” 473–486.
1231. EVANS, Robert J. W., and Alexander MARR.
(Eds.) Curiosity and Wonder from the Renaissance to
the Enlightenment. (280 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Aldershot:
Ashgate Publishing, 2006. ISBN: 0754641023.
Contents: Wes WILLIAMS, “Out of the Frying Pan: Curiosity,
Danger, and the Poetics of Witness in the Renaissance
Traveller’s Tale”; Neil KENNY, “The Metaphorical Collecting
of Curiosities in Early Modern France and Germany”;
Adriana TURPIN, “The New World Collections of Duke
Cosimo I de Medici and Their Role in the Creation of a
Kunst- and Wunderkammer in the Palazzo Vecchio, or, Did
the Medici Ever Create a Kunstkammer?”; Claire PRE-
STON, “The Jocund Cabinet and the Melancholy Museum in
Seventeenth-Century English Literature”; Peter FORSHAW,
“Curious Knowledge and Wonder-Working Wisdom in the
Occult Works of Heinrich Khunrath”; Stephen CLUCAS,
“Enthusiasm and Damnable Curiosity: Meric Casaubon and
John Dee”; Alexander MARR, “Gentille curiosité: Wonder-
Working and the Culture of Automata in the Late Renaissance”;
Deborah HARKNESS, “Nosce teipsum: Curiosity,
the Humoural Body, and the Culture of Therapeutics in Late
Sixteenth- and Early Seventeenth-Century England”; Paola
BERTUCCI, “Back from Wonderland: Jean Antoine Nollet’s
Italian Tour (1749)”; George ROUSSEAU, “Curiosity and the
lusus naturae: The Case of Proteus Hill.”
1232. LIU Xiaoxue and LIU Bing. “The Change
of the Image of Giordano Bruno—Yates’ Study and
Revelation.” [Translated title.] In Chinese. Ziran
Kexueshi Yanjiu 24 (2005): 259–268.
1233. “Michele Camerota’s New Biography of
Galileo: Three Essay Reviews.” Early Sci. Med.
10 (2005): 544–565.
Contents: Maurice A. FINOCCHIARO, Early Sci. Med. 10
(2005): 545–557, Paolo PALMIERI, Early Sci. Med. 10
(2005): 557-560, Steffen DUCHEYNE, Early Sci. Med. 10
(2005): 560–565.
1234. NÆSS, Atle. Galileo Galilei, When the World
Stood Still. (viii + 221 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Berlin;
New York: Springer, 2005. ISBN: 3540219617;
354027054X (ebook).
1235. POMATA, Gianna, and Nancy G. SIRAISI.
(Eds.) Historia: Empiricism and Erudition in Early
Modern Europe. Transformations. (viii + 490 pp.;
ill.; bibl.; index.) Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
2005. ISBN: 0262162296.
Essays on the meaning of the word historia in early modern
natural philosophy. Contents: Nancy G. SIRAISI and Gianna
POMATA, “Introduction,” 1-38; GRAFTON [ref. 1376];
OGILVIE [ref. 1261]; POMATA [ref. 1391]; MACLEAN
[ref. 1367]; MULSOW [ref. 1476]; Donald R. KELLEY,
“Between History and System,” 211-237; PINON [ref. 1370];
BLAIR [ref. 1243]; Chiara CRISCIANI, “Histories, Stories,
Exempla, and Anecdotes: Michele Savonarola from Latin to
Vernacular,” 297-324; SIRAISI [ref. 1400]; Peter N. MILLER,
“Description Terminable and Interminable: Looking at the
Past, Nature, and Peoples in Peiresc’s Archive,” 355-397.
1236. POPPER, Nicholas. “The English Polydaedali:
How Gabriel Harvey Read Late Tudor London.” J.
Hist. Ideas 66 (2005): 351–381.
On Harvey’s understanding of how practice and knowledge
could be unified as he encountered the urban London environment.
1237. SHEA, William R. “A New Biography of
Galileo.” Nuncius 20 (2005): 431–448.
Essay review of Michele CAMEROTA, Galileo Galilei e la
cultura scientifica nell’età della Controriforma (2004).
1238. WUSSING, Hans. Die große Erneuerung: Zur
Geschichte der Wissenschaftlichen Revolution. (ix
+223 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.) Basel: Birkhäuser, 2002.
ISBN: 3764366982.
330-12. STUDIES OF LINGUISTIC AND VISUAL
ASPECTS OF SCIENCE
1239. KUSUKAWA, Sachiko, and Ian MACLEAN.
(Eds.) Transmitting Knowledge: Words, Images,
and Instruments in Early Modern Europe. Oxford-
Warburg studies. (xv + 274 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index.)
Oxford/New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2006. ISBN:
019928878X.
Contents: (from WorldCat) Richard SCHOLAR, “Introduction,”
1-10; DUPRÉ [ref. 1341]; EAGLETON [ref. 1265];
KUSUKAWA [ref. 1240]; LÜTHY [ref. 1439]; MACLEAN
[ref. 1388]; MARR [ref. 1545]; MOSLEY [ref. 1321]; PANTIN
[ref. 1571]; REMMERT [ref. 1601].
1240. KUSUKAWA, Sachiko. “The Uses of Pictures
in the Formation of Learned Knowledge: The
Cases of Leonhard Fuchs and Andreas Vesalius.” In
KUSUKAWA and MACLEAN [ref. 1239], 73–96.
330-22. SCIENCE AND POLITICS, LAW, AND
ECONOMICS
1241. WALTHER, Gerrit. “Fürsten, Höfe und Naturwissenschaften
in der Frühen Neuzit. Versuch einer
Systematik.” In MAHLMANN-BAUER [ref. 1247],
143–160.
330-23. SCIENCE AND THE ARTS; SCIENCE AND
LITERATURE
1242. BIGNAMI, Giovanni F., and Galileo GALILEI.
Against the Donning of the Gown; Enigma. (85 pp.;
ill.) London: Moon Books, 2000.
Two poems composed ca. 1590 in Italian with parallel
English translation; introduction in English. Galileo satirizes
academia.
1243. BLAIR, Ann. “Historia in Zwinger’s Theatrum
humanae vitae.” In POMATA and SIRAISI [ref. 1235],
269–296.
1244. BOLZONI, Lina. “Note su Bruno e Ariosto.”
Physis 38 (2001): 41–66.
1245. GOUK, Penelope. “Doctors and Practitioners:
Music and Medicine as Paradigms of the Arts-Science
Divide in Early Modern Europe.” In MAHLMANN-
BAUER [ref. 1247], 161–188.
1246. LAURENZA, Domenico. De figura umana: fisiognomica,
anatomia e arte in Leonardo. Biblioteca
di Nuncius, Studi e Testi, 42. (xxi + 241 pp.; ill.;
bibl.; index.) Firenze: Leo S. Olschki, 2001. ISBN:
8822249976.
Reviews: [ref. R528]
1247. MAHLMANN-BAUER, Barbara. (Ed.) Scientiae
et artes: Die Vermittlung alten und neuen Wissens
in Literatur, Kunst und Musik. Wolfenbütteler
Arbeiten zur Barockforschung, 38. (2 vol., 1136 pp.;
ill.) Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz in Kommission, 2004.
ISBN: 3447049030.
Articles from 10. Kongress des Wolfenbütteler Arbeitskreises
für Barockforschung, April 5-8, 2000. German,
English and French. Partial contents: Barbara MAHLMANN-
BAUER, “Artes et scientiae - Künste und Wissenschaften - im