Michael H Shank
Biographic Data
| ID | 343618 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael H Shank |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael H |
| FAMILY NAME | Shank |
| SIGNATURE | SHANK M H |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Madison |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Eloge: Ronald L. Numbers (1942-2023)
Reading Galileo: Scribal Technologies and the “Two New Sciences.”
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Craig Martin. Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science
The cover of Craig Martin’s Subverting Aristotle: Religion, History, and Philosophy in Early Modern Science hints at the surprises inside. A cross replaces the T and a Π stands for the N in the title, beneath which Aristotle’s effigy is set upside down. While the cover intrigues, this wide-ranging book proceeds to overturn favorite assumptions and generalizations about Aristotle in the early modern period. In European intellectual history, Aristo…
Myth 1. That There Was No Scientific Activity between Greek Antiquity and the Scientific Revolution
The Cambridge History of Science
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts and accomplishments in the study of nature during the Middle Ages. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scho…
Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science
Schools and Universities in Medieval Latin Science
All'origine della scienza moderna: Federico Cesi e l'Accademia dei Lincei
Andrea Battistini, Gilberto De Angelis, and Giuseppe Olmi, eds. All'origine della scienza moderna: Federico Cesi e l'Accademia dei Lincei. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007. 480 pp. + 21 b/w pls. index. append. illus. €35. ISBN: 978–88–15–11986–5. - Volume 61 Issue 4
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685
Stephen Gaukroger. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 564 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. £35. ISBN: 978-0-19-929644-6. - Volume 61 Issue 2
The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Carla Rita Palmerino and J. M. M. H. Thijssen, eds., The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science , vol. 239. Dordrecht, and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 275 pp. index. illus. bibl. $109. ISBN: 1-4020-2454-1. - Volume 59 Issue 1
Science médiévale et vérité: Étude linguistique de l'expression du vrai dans le discours scientifique en langue vulgaire . Christine Silvi
Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius
William R. Shea. Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 226 pp. + 32 b/w pls. index, append, illus. map. bibl. $28. ISBN: 0-19-516598-5. - Volume 57 Issue 3
Tommaso Campanella
Germana Ernst, ed. Tommaso Campanella Introduction Nicola Badaloni. (Series Cento Libri per Mille Anni.) Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1999. lv + 1027 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a. - Tommaso Campanella. Lettere, 1595-1638 Ed. Germana Ernst. (Bibliotheca Stylensis, 2.) Pisa and Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2000. 171 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-8147-271-6. - Enzo Baldini. Luigi Firpo e Campanella: Cinquant'anni di ricerche …
Die Universität Wien im Mittelalter: Beiträge und Forschungen. Paul Uiblein , Kurt Mühlberger , Karl Kadletz
Know Thyself
Know Thyself
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
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News of the Society
Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France: Text and Context of Laurens Pignon's Contre les devineurs (1411) . Jan R. Veenstra
Lauree pavesi nella seconda metà del '400, 1: (1450-1475). Agostino Sottili , Xenio Toscani
Academic Consulting In Fifteenth-Century Vienna: The Case Of Astrology
This chapter discusses the involvement of university masters in astrological practice near Vienna that will complicate the picture further. It traces an intriguing pattern of change in the background of the astrological practitioners who worked near the Habsburg court, a perceptible shift from medical astrologers in the early fifteenth century, through mathematical astronomers/astrologers from the 1430s to the 1460s. The chapter also traces the f…
Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought
How Shall We Practice History? the Case of Mario Biagioli's Galileo, Courtier
Lire dans le ciel: La bibliotheque de Simon de Phares, astrologue du XVe siecle. Jean-Patrice Boudet
The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer . Arno Borst, Andrew Winnard
Nicolaus Cusanus und die Entstehung der exakten Wissenschaften. Fritz Nagel
Nicole Oresme and the Marvels of Nature: A Study of His "De causis mirabilium" with Critical Edition, Translation, and Commentary . Bert Hansen
A Female University Student in Late Medieval Kraków
Unless You Believe, You Shall Not Understand: Logic, University, and Society in Late Medieval Vienna
Founded in 1365, not long after the Great Plague ravaged Europe, the University of Vienna was revitalized in 1384 by prominent theologians displaced from Paris--among them Henry of Langenstein. Beginning with the 1384 revival, Michael Shank explores the history of the university and its ties with European intellectual life and the city of Vienna. In so doing he links the abstract discussions of university theologians with the burning of John Hus …
Cometary Theory in Fifteenth-Century Europe . Jane L. Jervis
The Ordering of Time: From the Ancient Computus to the Modern Computer . Arno Borst, Andrew Winnard
How Shall We Practice History? the Case of Mario Biagioli's Galileo, Courtier
Lire dans le ciel: La bibliotheque de Simon de Phares, astrologue du XVe siecle. Jean-Patrice Boudet
Academic Consulting In Fifteenth-Century Vienna: The Case Of Astrology
This chapter discusses the involvement of university masters in astrological practice near Vienna that will complicate the picture further. It traces an intriguing pattern of change in the background of the astrological practitioners who worked near the Habsburg court, a perceptible shift from medical astrologers in the early fifteenth century, through mathematical astronomers/astrologers from the 1430s to the 1460s. The chapter also traces the f…
Science, Art and Nature in Medieval and Modern Thought
Lauree pavesi nella seconda metà del '400, 1: (1450-1475). Agostino Sottili , Xenio Toscani
Magic and Divination at the Courts of Burgundy and France: Text and Context of Laurens Pignon's Contre les devineurs (1411) . Jan R. Veenstra
Know Thyself
Know Thyself
The Sun in the Church: Cathedrals as Solar Observatories
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
News of the Society
Die Universität Wien im Mittelalter: Beiträge und Forschungen. Paul Uiblein , Kurt Mühlberger , Karl Kadletz
Tommaso Campanella
Germana Ernst, ed. Tommaso Campanella Introduction Nicola Badaloni. (Series Cento Libri per Mille Anni.) Rome: Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato, 1999. lv + 1027 pp. n.p. ISBN: n.a. - Tommaso Campanella. Lettere, 1595-1638 Ed. Germana Ernst. (Bibliotheca Stylensis, 2.) Pisa and Rome: Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali, 2000. 171 pp. n.p. ISBN: 88-8147-271-6. - Enzo Baldini. Luigi Firpo e Campanella: Cinquant'anni di ricerche …
Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius
William R. Shea. Galileo in Rome: The Rise and Fall of a Troublesome Genius. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xii + 226 pp. + 32 b/w pls. index, append, illus. map. bibl. $28. ISBN: 0-19-516598-5. - Volume 57 Issue 3
Science médiévale et vérité: Étude linguistique de l'expression du vrai dans le discours scientifique en langue vulgaire . Christine Silvi
The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe
Carla Rita Palmerino and J. M. M. H. Thijssen, eds., The Reception of the Galilean Science of Motion in Seventeenth-Century Europe. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science , vol. 239. Dordrecht, and Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004. 275 pp. index. illus. bibl. $109. ISBN: 1-4020-2454-1. - Volume 59 Issue 1
All'origine della scienza moderna: Federico Cesi e l'Accademia dei Lincei
Andrea Battistini, Gilberto De Angelis, and Giuseppe Olmi, eds. All'origine della scienza moderna: Federico Cesi e l'Accademia dei Lincei. Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007. 480 pp. + 21 b/w pls. index. append. illus. €35. ISBN: 978–88–15–11986–5. - Volume 61 Issue 4
The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685
Stephen Gaukroger. The Emergence of a Scientific Culture: Science and the Shaping of Modernity, 1210–1685. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. x + 564 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. £35. ISBN: 978-0-19-929644-6. - Volume 61 Issue 2
The Cambridge History of Science
This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science in the Middle Ages from the North Atlantic to the Indus Valley. Medieval science was once universally dismissed as non-existent - and sometimes it still is. This volume reveals the diversity of goals, contexts and accomplishments in the study of nature during the Middle Ages. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scho…
Cambridge History of Science: Volume 2, Medieval Science
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