History of Universities Volume XXVIII/2

by Feingold, Mordechai

• ISBN13: 9780198743651
• ISBN10: 0198743653
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2015-08-30
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Mordechai Feingold is Professor of History at California Institute of Technology.

Table of Contents

A Book, a Pen, and the Sphere: Reading Sacrobosco in the Renaissance, Richard J. Oosterhoff
The formal presence of the ancients: References to ancient Greek and Roman authors in medical and political science dissertations, ca. 1625-1850, Anna Fredriksson
The academic study of Arabic in seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Protestant Germany: a preliminary sketch, Asaph Ben-Tov
From Political Rejection to Scientific Renewal: Chaim Weizmann and the Foundation of the Sieff Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine 1931-1934, Uri Cohen
Reviews
Olga Weijers, In Search of the Truth. A History of Disputation Techniques from Antiquity to Early Modern Times, Ann Blair
Jacques Verger & Olga Weijers (eds), Les debuts de l'enseignement universitaire a Paris (1200-1245 environ), William J. Courtenay
Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch (eds.), Wissenschaftsatlas der Universitat Heidelberg, Howard Hotson
Daniela Progler, English Students at Leiden University, 1575-1650. 'Advancing your abilities in learning and bettering your understanding of the world and state affairs', Esther Mijers
Jan Loop, Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century, G. J. Toomer
Jens Bruning, Innovation in Forschung und Lehre. Die Philosophische Fakultat der Universitat Helmstedt in der Fruhaufklarung 1680-1740, Joseph S. Freedman
Mark Burden ed., Dissenting Academies Online, John Spurr
Yasmin Haskell, Prescribing Ovid: the Latin works and networks of the enlightened Dr Heerkens, David Money
Scott Mandelbrote & John H.R. Davis eds, The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford 1601-1850, William Poole
Seung-Kee Lee et al. eds, Philosophical academic programs of the German Enlightement: a literary genre recontextualized, Jocelyn Holland