Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine

Edith Dudley Sylla, Ph.D. (1971) in History of Science, Harvard University, is Professor of History Emerita at North Carolina State University. She recently published a study and English translation of Jacob Bernoulli's The Art of Conjecturing (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).William R. Newman, Ph.D. (1986) in History of Science, Harvard University, is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Indiana University. His most recent monographs are Atoms and Alchemy and Promethean Ambitions, both with the University of Chicago Press.

• Introduction, William R. Newman & Edith Dudley SyllaANCIENTModes of Explanation in the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems, Jean De GrootStructures of Argument and Concepts of Force in the Aristotelian Mechanical Problems, Mark SchiefskyISLAMIC/ARABICThe Simple Ontology of Kalām Atomism: An Outline, A. I. SabraThe Footprints of “Experiment” in Early Arabic Optics, Elaheh KheirandishTHE LATIN MIDDLE AGESThe “Experience-Based Medicine” of the Thirteenth Century, Michael McVaughThe Intellect Naturalized: Roger Bacon on the Existence of Corporeal Species within the Intellect, Yael Raizman-KedarMagic and the Physical World in Thirteenth-Century Scholasticism, Steven P. MarroneThe Debate over the Nature of Motion: John Buridan, Nicole Oresme, and Albert of Saxony. With an Edition of John Buridan’s Quaestiones super libros Physicorum, secundum ultimam lecturam, Book III, q. 7, Johannes M.M.H. ThijssenJohn Buridan and Critical Realism, Edith Dudley SyllaLATE MEDIEVAL, RENAISSANCE, AND EARLY MODERNThe Significance of “Chymical Atomism”, William R. NewmanConjecture, Probabilism, and Provisional Knowledge in Renaissance Meteorology, Craig MartinSetting up Copernicus? Astronomy and Natural Philosophy in Giambattista Capuano da Manfredonia’s Expositio on the Sphere, Michael H. ShankCopernicus’s Mereological Vision of the Universe, André GodduFrom “Dragonology” to Meteorology: Aristotelian Natural Philosophy and the Beginning of the Decline of the Dragon in China, Qiong ZhangBaroque Fire (A Note on Early-Modern Angelology), Anne A. DavenportWords, Lines, Diagrams, Images: Towards a History of Scientific Imagery, Christoph Lüthy & Alexis SmetsIndex

"Evidence and Interpretation in Studies on Early Science and Medicine is an excellently edited volume that includes sixteen contributions [...] of high quality and will make significant contributions to their respective fields"- Gad Freudenthal, ISIS, 103: 1 (2012), pp. 164-166