Abstract
Part I Reconstructing authority: remapping knowledge, reshaping institutions, Luce Giard the history of science and the Renaissance science of history, Stephen Pumfrey rhetoric and science/rhetoric of science/rhetoric as science, Maurice Slawinski natural philosophy and its public concerns, Julian Martin the church and the new philosophy, Peter Dear. Part II True learning, useful arts, foolish superstitions: science, culture and the dissemination of learning, Paolo L. Rossi the challenge of practical mathematics, Jim Bennett doctors and healers - popular culture and the medical profession, John Henry the rational witchfinder - conscience, demonological naturalism and popular superstitions, Stuart Clark astrology, religion, and politics in counter-Reformation Rome, Germana Ernst astrology in early modern England - the making of a vulgar knowledge, Patrick Curry.
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