Main description:

This volume provides insight into how and why medicine and natural philosophy in a "liberal" and Melanchthonian form could continue to blossom in Scandinavia despite a growing Lutheran uniformity promoted by the State.

Contents:

CONTENTS

List of Contributors

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Ole Peter Grell

2. Philip Melanchthon and his significance for natural philosophy: Andrew Cunningham

3. Daniel Sennert and the chymico-atomical reform of medicine: Joel A. Klein

4. The changing face of Lutheranism in post-Reformation Denmark: Rasmus H. C. Dreyer

5. After Tycho: Philippist astronomy and cosmology in the work of Brahe's Scandinavian assistants: Adam Mosley

6. The Book of Nature and the Word of God. Lutheran natural philosophy and medicine in early 17th century Denmark and Norway: Morten Fink-Jensen

7. Holger Rosenkrantz, 'the Learned' (1574-1642): Jens Glebe-Moller

8. The significance of monstrous births in Thomas Bartholin's natural philosophy: Signe Nipper Nielsen

9. Three seventeenth century manuals on how and where to study medicine: Ole Peter Grell

10. The natural philosophy of Sigfrid Aronus Forsius: between the Created World and God: Terhi Kiiskinen

11. Johannes Bureus and the Prisca Astronomia: A Lutheran Antiquary Engages with the New Science: Matthew Norris

12. By Natural Means: Magic and Medicine in Ericus Johannis Prytz' Magia incantatrix (1632): Martin Kjellgren

Index