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Proclus on nature philosophy of nature and its methods in Proclus' Commentary on Plato's Timaeus / by Martijn, Marije

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Science and the human comedy : natural philosophy in French literature from Rabelais to Maupertuis / by Brown, Harcourt, 1900-

The Science of Nature in the Seventeenth Century Patterns of Change in Early Modern Natural Philosophy / by Anstey, Peter R.

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Speculative truth Henry Cavendish, natural philosophy, and the rise of modern theoretical science / by McCormmach, Russell

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The Bodhisattva's brain Buddhism naturalized / by Flanagan, Owen J.

Table of Contents: “…An essay in comparative neurophilosophy -- Preface -- Introduction : Buddhism naturalized -- The Bodhisattva's brain -- The colour of happiness -- Buddhist epistemology and science -- Buddhism as a natural philosophy. Buddhist persons -- Being no-self & being nice -- Virtue & happiness -- Postscript : cosmopolitanism and comparative philosophy.…”
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The Bodhisattva's brain Buddhism naturalized / by Flanagan, Owen J.

Table of Contents: “…An essay in comparative neurophilosophy -- Preface -- Introduction : Buddhism naturalized -- The Bodhisattva's brain -- The colour of happiness -- Buddhist epistemology and science -- Buddhism as a natural philosophy. Buddhist persons -- Being no-self & being nice -- Virtue & happiness -- Postscript : cosmopolitanism and comparative philosophy.…”
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The intelligibility of nature how science makes sense of the world / by Dear, Peter, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality -- The mechanical universe from Galileo to Newton -- A place for everything : the classification of the world -- The chemical revolution thwarted by atoms -- Design and disorder : the origin of species -- Dynamical explanation : the aether and Victorian machines -- How to understand nature? …”
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The intelligibility of nature how science makes sense of the world / by Dear, Peter, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : science as natural philosophy, science as instrumentality -- The mechanical universe from Galileo to Newton -- A place for everything : the classification of the world -- The chemical revolution thwarted by atoms -- Design and disorder : the origin of species -- Dynamical explanation : the aether and Victorian machines -- How to understand nature? …”
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The Tao of the West Western transformations of Taoist thought / by Clarke, J. J. (John James), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…'The Great Clod': Daoist natural philosophy -- 5. 'Going ramblin without destination': moral explorations -- 6. …”
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The Tao of the West Western transformations of Taoist thought / by Clarke, J. J. (John James), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…'The Great Clod': Daoist natural philosophy -- 5. 'Going ramblin without destination': moral explorations -- 6. …”
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Arcimboldo visual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting / by Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Arcimboldo's Lombard origins -- Arcimboldo from 1562: the creation of composite heads -- Learning, poetry, and art -- Serious jokes -- Natural philosophy, natural history, and nature painting -- Nature studies -- Arcimboldo and the origins of still life -- Arcimboldo's paradoxical paintings and the origins of still life -- Conclusion: Arcimboldo in the history of art -- Appendix 1. …”
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Arcimboldo visual jokes, natural history, and still-life painting / by Kaufmann, Thomas DaCosta

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Arcimboldo's Lombard origins -- Arcimboldo from 1562: the creation of composite heads -- Learning, poetry, and art -- Serious jokes -- Natural philosophy, natural history, and nature painting -- Nature studies -- Arcimboldo and the origins of still life -- Arcimboldo's paradoxical paintings and the origins of still life -- Conclusion: Arcimboldo in the history of art -- Appendix 1. …”
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Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic /

Table of Contents: “…/ Rina Knoeff -- The Man Who Erased Himself / Willem Jacob -- Ad Maas ̀The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth' Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy / Kees de Pater -- Low Country Opticks The optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch Ǹewtonianism' / Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis -- Defining the Supernatural The Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature / Rienk Vermij -- Anti-Newtonianism and Radical Enlightenment / Jordy Geerlings -- Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment The teaching of ̀philosophy' from Gravesande to Van Swinden / Henri Krop.…”
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Newton and the Netherlands : How Isaac Newton was Fashioned in the Dutch Republic /

Table of Contents: “…/ Rina Knoeff -- The Man Who Erased Himself / Willem Jacob -- Ad Maas ̀The Wisest Man to Whom this Earth Has as Yet Given Birth' Petrus van Musschenbroek and the limits of Newtonian natural philosophy / Kees de Pater -- Low Country Opticks The optical pursuits of Lambert ten Kate and Daniel Fahrenheit in early Dutch Ǹewtonianism' / Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis -- Defining the Supernatural The Dutch Newtonians, the Bible and the Laws of Nature / Rienk Vermij -- Anti-Newtonianism and Radical Enlightenment / Jordy Geerlings -- Newtonianism at the Dutch Universities during the Enlightenment The teaching of ̀philosophy' from Gravesande to Van Swinden / Henri Krop.…”
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Cicero's Law : Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic /

Table of Contents: “…On law -- A Barzunesque view of Cicero : from giant to dwarf and back / Philip Thomas -- Reading a dead man's mind : Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric and Roman law / Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen -- Law's nature : philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero's writings / Benedikt Forschner -- Part II. …”
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Cicero's Law : Rethinking Roman Law of the Late Republic /

Table of Contents: “…On law -- A Barzunesque view of Cicero : from giant to dwarf and back / Philip Thomas -- Reading a dead man's mind : Hellenistic philosophy, rhetoric and Roman law / Olga Tellegen-Couperus and Jan Willem Tellegen -- Law's nature : philosophy as a legal argument in Cicero's writings / Benedikt Forschner -- Part II. …”
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Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe

Table of Contents: “…Lourenço and David Felismino -- The Gazola Family's Scientific Cabinet : Politics, Society and Scientific Collecting in the Twilight of the Republic of Venice / Ivano Dal Prete -- Collections of Experimental Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Poland / Ewa Wyka -- "Monuments of Science" : How the Teyler Museum's Instrument Collection Became Historical / Martin Weiss -- The Physics Cabinet of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano / Paolo Brenni.…”
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Cabinets of experimental philosophy in eighteenth-century Europe

Table of Contents: “…Lourenço and David Felismino -- The Gazola Family's Scientific Cabinet : Politics, Society and Scientific Collecting in the Twilight of the Republic of Venice / Ivano Dal Prete -- Collections of Experimental Natural Philosophy in Eighteenth-Century Poland / Ewa Wyka -- "Monuments of Science" : How the Teyler Museum's Instrument Collection Became Historical / Martin Weiss -- The Physics Cabinet of the Istituto Tecnico Toscano / Paolo Brenni.…”
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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? -- Natural philosophy in an apocalyptic age -- Visual seductions -- The problem of "Renaissance paganism" -- Image acts and visual culture -- The presence of images as visual practice -- Political consideration -- Johann Heinrich Alsted : hermeticism and universal reform -- Perfect knowledge in the "circle of learning" : Alsted's encyclopaedia -- Conclusion: locations of knowledge -- Writing histories, narrating pasts -- Esoteric discourse and Western identities.…”
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Locations of knowledge in medieval and early modern Europe esoteric discourse and Western identities / by Stuckrad, Kocku von, 1966-

Table of Contents: “…-- The two-fold pluralism -- The polemical construction of tradition -- The construction of Prisca Theologia -- Genealogies of wisdom -- Jewish perspectives -- Beyond tradition -- Conceptualizing the study of esoteric discourse -- Approaches to esotericism -- Secrecy as social capital -- Discourses of perfect knowledge -- Shared passions -- The secrets of experience : wisdom beyond demonstration -- Neoplatonism and theurgy in late antiquity -- Experiential knowledge in Suhrawardi's illuminationist philosophy -- The secrets of texts : esoteric hermeneutics -- The readability of the cosmos : Europe's obsession with words -- The textile of the divine in early Kabbalah -- Linguistic ontologies in Christian Kabbalah -- Humanistic philology : universal languages and the quest for the Ursprache -- The secrets of time : astrology and sacred history -- Critical response to ancient traditions : medieval Arabic astrology -- Sharing Muslim knowledge : Christian astrology -- Interferences -- Scientific encounters -- "Occult sciences" : the science-religion divide revisited -- John Dee : a scholar gone mad? -- Natural philosophy in an apocalyptic age -- Visual seductions -- The problem of "Renaissance paganism" -- Image acts and visual culture -- The presence of images as visual practice -- Political consideration -- Johann Heinrich Alsted : hermeticism and universal reform -- Perfect knowledge in the "circle of learning" : Alsted's encyclopaedia -- Conclusion: locations of knowledge -- Writing histories, narrating pasts -- Esoteric discourse and Western identities.…”
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