Logic, Signs and Nature in the Renaissance: The Case of Learned Medicine

This is a major work by Ian Maclean exploring the foundations of learning in the Renaissance. Logic, Signs and Nature offers a profoundly learned, compelling and original account of the range of what was thinkable and knowable by learned medics of the period c.1530-1630. This is a study of great significance to the history of medicine, as well as the history of European ideas in general.

Author: Ian MacLean
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 12/10/2001
Pages: 430
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.30w x 1.23d
ISBN: 9780521806480

About the Author
MacLean, Ian: - Ian Maclean is Senior Research Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and Titular Professor of Renaissance Studies at the University of Oxford. His many publications include The Renaissance Notion of Women (1980), Montaigne (1982), The Political Responsibility of Intellectuals (edited, with Alan Montefiore and Peter Winch; 1990), Interpretation and Meaning in the Renaissance: The Case of Law (1992) and Montaigne: Philosophe (1996).

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