Conflicting duties : science, medicine and religion in Rome, 1550-1750. Warburg Institute colloquia ; 15 by edited by Maria Pia Donato and Jill Kraye - 2009

The Warburg Institute, London; Turin, 2009. First Edition. Softcover. Near Fine Condition/No Dust Jacket. ISSN 1352 9986. Papers from the colloquia held at the Warburg Institute, October 2003. Includes bibliographical references and index. Papers contained are: Engineering, Patronage and the Authorship of Practice in Early Counter-Reformation Rome by Pamel O Long; The Birth of the Modern Atlas -Rome, Lafreri, Ortelius by Mean-Marc Besse; Portrait emblematique du parfait mecene - comment Ulisse Aldrovandi remercie le cardinal Montalo by Laurent Pinon; Bernin dispute - science, art et architecture dans la Rome de 1680by Pascal Dubourg Glatigny; Science, Books and Censorship in the Academy of the Licei. Johannes Faber as Cultural Mediator by Sabina Brevaglieri; Marvellous Conjecture? The Academy of Maurice of Savoy in Rome between Politics and the New Science by Frederica Favino Mathematics and Philosophy at Trinita dei Monti - Emmanuel Maignan and his Legacy between Rome and France by Antonella Romano; Da Galileo a Borelli e oltre - la filosofia naturale delle Scuole Pie a Roma nel Sciento by Stefania Montacutelli; Living in the Shadow of Galileo - Antonio Baldgiani (1647 - 1711), a Jesuit Scientist in Late Seventeenth-Century Rome by Paula Findlen; Anatomie du Venerable dans la Rome de la Contre-Reforme. Les autopsies d' Ignace de Loyola et de Philippe Neri by Elisa Andretta; Chemical Medicines in Rome. Pietro Castelli andthe Vitriol Debate (1616 - 1620) by Antonio Clericuzio; The Bibloteca Lancisiana athe 1714 edition of Eustachi's Anatomical Plates, of Ancients and Moderns Reconciled by Maria Conforti; The Mechanical Medicine of a Pious Man of Science - G M Lancisi's De subitaneis mortibus (1770) by Maria Pia Donato; The Anatomy of the Pope by Lucia Dacome. Text is in English & French. Crisp clean covers, tight binding, clean pages and inside covers. No dust jacket, as published. Previous owner's name, Kerry Downes, in pencil at the front. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: under 1 kg. ISBN: 0854811494. ISBN/EAN: 9780854811496. Pictures of this item not already displayed here available upon request. Inventory No: 62022041201. For international tracking please select Priority shipping service.. 9780854811496