Art, science, and history in the Renaissance / edited by Charles S. Singleton
1967, First Edition. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #240170
ISBN: 080180602X
Physical description; vii, 446 p. : ill., facsims., maps, music ; 29 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographic footnotes. Series; The Johns Hopkins humanities seminars. Contents; Pt.1. Art and music: The leaven of criticism in Renaissance art / E.H. Gombrich -- Paragone: aspects of the relationship between sculpture and painting / John White -- The musical avant-garde of the Renaissance or: The peril and profit of foresight / Edward E. Lowinsky -- The music for "Quante bella Giovinezza" and other carnival songs by Lorenzo De' Medici / Walter H. Rubsamen -- Pt.2. Science: Science and the techniques of navigation in the Renaissance / D.W. Waters -- Philosophies of science in Florentine Platonism / George Boas -- The hermetic tradition in Renaissance science / Frances A. Yates -- Some novel trends in the science of the fourteenth century / Marshall Clagett -- Mathematics. astronomy, and physics in the work of Galileo / Stillman Drake -- Empiricism and the scientific revolution / Ernan McMullin -- Pt.3. History: The Renaissance interest in history / Felix Gilbert -- Claude de Seyssel and normal politics in the age of Machiavelli / J.H. Hexter -- Donne and the Elizabethans / Wolfgang Clemen. Subjects; 15th-16th centuries. Renaissance. Science, Renaissance. Arts, Renaissance. Science — History. Renaissance — Addresses, essays, lectures.
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