Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, is member of the Collective Research Centre Episteme in Bewegung, Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on science, philosophy and literature in the Early Modern Period, as well as on historical epistemology.Karin Friedrich is professor of early modern European History at the University of Aberdeen. She is co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies and specialises on early modern social and intellectual history in Germany and East Central Europe.

• PART 1 Liddel’s World1 Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European RenaissancePietro Daniel Omodeo2 Confabulatory LifeMordechai Feingold3 The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and PhysicianPietro Daniel OmodeoPART 2 Mathematics, Medicine and Epistemology4 A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel’s TimeJohn Henry5 Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of KnowledgeJonathan Regier6 Liddel’s Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of EthicsLaura Di GiammatteoPART 3 Academic Life and Higher Education7 It’s Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel’s HelmstedtRichard Kirwan8 Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel’s HelmstedtElizabeth Harding9 Liddel and the University of AberdeenDuncan CockburnPART 4 New Sources10 Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier11 Liddel’s Oratio de praestantia mathematicarumPietro Daniel OmodeoPART 5 Bibliographical Reconstructions12 Reconstructing Liddel’s Library at AberdeenJane Pirie13 Liddel’s Published and Unpublished WorksSabine Bertram

“This is a rich and very valuable book. It is also an exemplary volume that throws light not only on a rather unknown figure in the history of science but also on sixteenth-century scholarly life in general.”Rienk Vermij, University of Oklahoma. In: Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 48, No. 4 (2017), pp. 482-483.

Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, is member of the Collective Research Centre Episteme in Bewegung, Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on science, philosophy and literature in the Early Modern Period, as well as on historical epistemology.Karin Friedrich is professor of early modern European History at the University of Aberdeen. She is co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies and specialises on early modern social and intellectual history in Germany and East Central Europe.

• PART 1 Liddel’s World1 Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European RenaissancePietro Daniel Omodeo2 Confabulatory LifeMordechai Feingold3 The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and PhysicianPietro Daniel OmodeoPART 2 Mathematics, Medicine and Epistemology4 A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel’s TimeJohn Henry5 Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of KnowledgeJonathan Regier6 Liddel’s Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of EthicsLaura Di GiammatteoPART 3 Academic Life and Higher Education7 It’s Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel’s HelmstedtRichard Kirwan8 Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel’s HelmstedtElizabeth Harding9 Liddel and the University of AberdeenDuncan CockburnPART 4 New Sources10 Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier11 Liddel’s Oratio de praestantia mathematicarumPietro Daniel OmodeoPART 5 Bibliographical Reconstructions12 Reconstructing Liddel’s Library at AberdeenJane Pirie13 Liddel’s Published and Unpublished WorksSabine Bertram

“This is a rich and very valuable book. It is also an exemplary volume that throws light not only on a rather unknown figure in the history of science but also on sixteenth-century scholarly life in general.”Rienk Vermij, University of Oklahoma. In: Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 48, No. 4 (2017), pp. 482-483.

Pietro Daniel Omodeo, Ph.D., Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, is member of the Collective Research Centre Episteme in Bewegung, Freie Universität Berlin. His research focuses on science, philosophy and literature in the Early Modern Period, as well as on historical epistemology.Karin Friedrich is professor of early modern European History at the University of Aberdeen. She is co-director of the Centre for Early Modern Studies and specialises on early modern social and intellectual history in Germany and East Central Europe.

• PART 1 Liddel’s World1 Science and Medicine in the Humanistic Networks of the Northern European RenaissancePietro Daniel Omodeo2 Confabulatory LifeMordechai Feingold3 The European Career of a Scottish Mathematician and PhysicianPietro Daniel OmodeoPART 2 Mathematics, Medicine and Epistemology4 A Pragmatic Aspect of Polymathy: The Alliance of Mathematics and Medicine in Liddel’s TimeJohn Henry5 Logic, Mathematics and Natural Light: Liddel on the Foundations of KnowledgeJonathan Regier6 Liddel’s Ars Medica (1607): The Effective Method as Foundation of Medical Knowledge and of EthicsLaura Di GiammatteoPART 3 Academic Life and Higher Education7 It’s Who You Know: Scholarly Networks in Liddel’s HelmstedtRichard Kirwan8 Home-Styling Matters: Symbolic Dimensions of the Professorial Household at Liddel’s HelmstedtElizabeth Harding9 Liddel and the University of AberdeenDuncan CockburnPART 4 New Sources10 Liddel on the Geo-Heliocentric Controversy: His Letter to Brahe from 1600Pietro Daniel Omodeo and Jonathan Regier11 Liddel’s Oratio de praestantia mathematicarumPietro Daniel OmodeoPART 5 Bibliographical Reconstructions12 Reconstructing Liddel’s Library at AberdeenJane Pirie13 Liddel’s Published and Unpublished WorksSabine Bertram

“This is a rich and very valuable book. It is also an exemplary volume that throws light not only on a rather unknown figure in the history of science but also on sixteenth-century scholarly life in general.”Rienk Vermij, University of Oklahoma. In: Journal for the History of Astronomy, Vol. 48, No. 4 (2017), pp. 482-483.