Focusing on knowledge, science and literature in early modern Germany, this collection presents 12 essays on emerging epistemologies regarding: the transcendent

Pioneering investigation into relationship between physical sense of taste, and taste as a term denoting judgement, in early modern England.

In this book Peter Burke adopts a socio-cultural approach toexamine the changes in the organization of knowledge in Europe fromthe invention of printing to the

This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments. The individual chapters chart

Paracelsus has been called the father of modern chemistry and is legendary for his treatment of syphilis. This work argues that Paracelsus developed an understa