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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon - Kusukawa, Sachiko
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This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and Plato, incorporating contemporary findings of Copernicus and Vesalius. The fields of astrology, anatomy, botany and mathematics all constituted a natural philosophy in which Melanchthon wished to demonstrate God's Providential design ...

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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon 2006, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521030465

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The Transformation of Natural Philosophy: The Case of Philip Melanchthon 1995, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521473477

Hardcover