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Volume 58 - Issue 3 - Fall 2005

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Jole Shackelford. A Philosophical Path for Paracelsian Medicine: The Ideas, Intellectual Context, and Influence of Petrus Severinus: 1540–1602. Acta Scientiarum Naturalium et Medicinalium 46. Copenhagen : Museum Tusculanum Press, 2004. 519 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $83. ISBN: 87-7289-817-8.

Owen Gingerich. The Book Nobody Read: Chasing the Revolutions of Nicolaus Copernicus. New York : Walker & Company, 2004. xiv + 306 pp. + 8 color pls. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $25. ISBN: 0-8027-1415-3.

Simonetta Bassi. L’arte di Giordano Bruno: Memoria, furore, magia. Istituto nazionale di studi sul Rinascimento: Studi e testi 44. Florence : Leo S. Olschki, 2004. xiii + 238 pp. index. €25. ISBN: 88-222-5339-6.

Natacha Fabbri. Cosmologia e armonia in Kepler e Mersenne: Contrappunto a due voci sul tema dell’ Harmonice mundi. Biblioteca di “nuncius” Studi e testi 50. Florence : Leo S. Olschki, 2003. 280 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. €28. ISBN: 88-222-5302-7.

Chikara Sasaki. Descartes’s Mathematical Thought. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 237. Dordrecht and Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003. xiv + 496 pp. index. illus. bibl. $158. ISBN: 1-4020-1746-4.

Elena. Rapetti Percorsi anticartesiani nelle lettere a Pierre-Daniel Huet. Le corrispondenze lettererie, scientifiche ed erudite dal Rinascimento all’età moderna 4. Florence : Leo S. Olschki, 2003. 236 pp. index. append. €23. ISBN: 88-222-5276-4.

Frank Sobiech. Herz, Gott, Kreuz: Die Spiritualität des Anatomen, Geologen und Bischofs Dr. med. Niels Stensen (1638-86). Westfalia Sacra 13. Munich : Aschendorff Verlag, 2004. xx + 392 pp. + 13 color and 5 b/w pls. index. append. illus. bibl. €64. ISBN: 3-402-03842-0.

Paula Findlen, ed. Athanasius Kircher: The Last Man Who Knew Everything. New York and London : Routledge, 2004. xii + 466 pp. index. append. illus. bibl. $29.95. ISBN: 0-415-94016-8.

Elizabeth A. Spiller. Science, Reading, and Renaissance Literature: The Art of Making Knowledge, 1580-1670. Cambridge Studies in Renaissance Literature and Culture. Cambridge and New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. xi + 214 pp. index. illus. £45. ISBN: 0-521-83086-9.

Lyndal Roper. Witch Craze: Terror and Fantasy in Baroque Germany. New Haven and London : Yale University Press, 2004. xiv + 362 pp. index. illus. map. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-300-10335-2.

P. G. Maxwell-Stuart. Witch Hunters: Professional Prickers, Unwitchers and Witch Finders of the Renaissance. Stroud : Tempus Publishing Limited, 2003. 158 pp. + 8 b/w pls. index. illus. bibl. $35. ISBN: 0-7524-2339-8.

Laura Lunger Landes and Joan B. Knoppers, eds. Monstrous Bodies/Political Monstrosities in Early Modern Europe. Ithaca and London : Cornell University Press, 2004. xiv + 304 pp. index. illus. $59.95 (cl), $22.50 (pbk). ISBN: 0-8014-4176-5 (cl), 0-8014-8901-6 (pbk).

Richard W. Unger. Beer in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. xviii + 320 pp. index. append. illus. tbls. map. bibl. $45. ISBN: 0-8122-3795-1.

Adam Smyth, ed. A Pleasing Sinne: Drink and Conviviality in Seventeenth-Century England. Studies in Renaissance Literature 14. Cambridge : Boydell & Brewer, Inc. , 2004. xxv + 214 pp. index. illus. $85. ISBN: 1-84384-009-X.

Peter Iver Kaufman. Thinking of the Laity in Late Tudor England. Notre Dame : University of Notre Dame Press, 2004. xii + 176 pp. index. $40 (cl), $20 (pbk). ISBN: 0-268-03304-8 (cl), 0-268-03305-6 (pbk).

Timothy Scott McGinnis. George Gifford and the Reformation of the Common Sort: Puritan Priorities in Elizabethan Religious Life. Sixteenth Century Essays & Studies 70. Kirksville : Truman State University Press, 2004. xiv + 191 pp. index. append. illus. map. bibl. $49.95. ISBN: 1-931112-40-1.

Jean-Christophe Mayer, ed. The Struggle for the Succession in Late Elizabethan England: Politics, Polemics and Cultural Representations. Preface by Jenny Wormald. Astraea Collection 11. Montpellier : Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3, 2004. xviii + 432 pp. illus. €17. ISBN: 2-84269-239-X.

David R. Como. Blown by the Spirit: Puritanism and the Emergence of an Antinomian Underground in Pre-Civil-War England. Stanford : Stanford University Press, 2004. xvi + 513 pp. index. append. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-8047-4443-2.

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