The alchemy of medicine and print :
the Edward Worth Library, Dublin /
Danielle Westerhof, editor.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dublin :
Four Courts Press,
2010.
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| Notes: | "This volume arises from a conference held in 2008 at the Royal Society in London to mark the 275th anniversary of the establishment of the Edward Worth Library in Dr Steevens' Hospital, Dublin"--jkt. Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 11A Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. Includes bibliographical references and index. Physical description: 224 p. : ill., ports., facsims ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9781846822285 (hbk.) 1846822289 (hbk.) |
Table of Contents:
Part I: Edward Worth and his milieu
Men of varying means / Lisa Lambert
Edward Worth and his library / Davis Coakley
Part 2: Libraries and the pursuit of knowledge
Some private libraries in early eighteenth-century Ireland / Charles Benson
Medicine in print in the early modern period : medical books in Marsh{u2019}s Library, Dublin / Jean-Paul Pittion
The sceptical collector : alchemy and chemistry in early modern Irish medical libraries / Elizabethanne Boran
Part 3: Printing and the dissemination of knowledge
Universal language (1641) to universal war (1814) : a reading of Maria Edgeworth's Patronage / Bill Mc Cormack
Robert Boyle and the uses of print / Michael Hunter
Vesalius, the book and the bones / Sachiko Kusukawa
Syphilis (morbus gallicus) in print before 1733 in the Edward Worth collection, Dublin / Magdalena Kozluk
Part 4: Health, regimen and healing knowledge
Petrus de Crescentiis' Ruralia commoda : a medieval agricultural "regimen sanitatis"? / Danielle Westerhof
Philosophical regimen and problematic identity in the healer : Hippocrates to Avicenna / Ilham Ibnou-Zahir Medicina mentis : medicine and the origins of modern philosophy / Howard Caygill.
Part I: Edward Worth and his milieu
Men of varying means / Lisa Lambert
Edward Worth and his library / Davis Coakley
Part 2: Libraries and the pursuit of knowledge
Some private libraries in early eighteenth-century Ireland / Charles Benson
Medicine in print in the early modern period : medical books in Marsh{u2019}s Library, Dublin / Jean-Paul Pittion
The sceptical collector : alchemy and chemistry in early modern Irish medical libraries / Elizabethanne Boran
Part 3: Printing and the dissemination of knowledge
Universal language (1641) to universal war (1814) : a reading of Maria Edgeworth's Patronage / Bill Mc Cormack
Robert Boyle and the uses of print / Michael Hunter
Vesalius, the book and the bones / Sachiko Kusukawa
Syphilis (morbus gallicus) in print before 1733 in the Edward Worth collection, Dublin / Magdalena Kozluk
Part 4: Health, regimen and healing knowledge
Petrus de Crescentiis' Ruralia commoda : a medieval agricultural "regimen sanitatis"? / Danielle Westerhof
Philosophical regimen and problematic identity in the healer : Hippocrates to Avicenna / Ilham Ibnou-Zahir Medicina mentis : medicine and the origins of modern philosophy / Howard Caygill.