The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from
Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey-the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine …

It is difficult to discover why in certain places and periods? in the Italy of the Renaissance, in
the Golden Age of Spain and in Elizabethan England, for example? the student of history …

In his landmark study On the Fabric of the Human Body (1543), Andreas Vesalius launched
a withering critique of Galen, the ancient physician whose anatomical writings had held …

" Man is to render praise to God"-so wrote Leon Battista Alberti in the mid-fifteenth century-"
to satisfy him with good works for those gifts of excelling virtu that God gave to the soul of …

Let me start straight at the heart of the matter, and try to pinpoint the positive technical
achievements of art over the early scientific timescale. We have then the direct contributions …

SOME FIVE DECADES AGO, in the heat of the revolt against the Burckhardtian view of the
Renaissance, science and humanism were generally regarded as antithetical, or at least as …

TWENTY YEARS OR so ago, this review essay would have been titled “Art and Science.” In
the mid-1990s a series of trailblazing publications by the likes of Horst Bredekamp, Lorraine …

Art and Artifice in the Depiction of Renaissance Machines' Page 1 Art and Artifice in the
Depiction of Renaissance Machines' Paolo Galluzzi During the course of the Quattrocento …

Bearing in mind that science is a product of its environment and at the same time an
important modifier of that environment, I shall try to draw an over-all picture of science in the …

Historians often assert that the origins of modern science lay in a conscious revolt against
the authority of Aristotle, a revolt that was openly proclaimed by Pierre de la Ramée, Francis …