Compelling Doubts in the Padua of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli: Note-Taking, Medical Training, and Maize Biscuits

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Dilemmas and Uncertainties: The Sciences at the Early Modern University— An Introduction 1
4. Mathematics, Scientific Instruments, and Certainty of Knowledge: Péter Pázmány between Bellarmine and Clavius at the Jesuit College of Graz 13
5. Was Kepler Being Ironic? Ramus Professors of Mathematics and the Nature of Their Hypotheses in the Classroom 43
6. Andreas Arvidi as a Student at the University of Tartu 69
7. Discourse, Method and Utility: On How the Method of Giovanni Battista da Monte Served Regulating (Not Only) Medical Conflicts 95
8. Compelling Doubts in the Padua of Gian Vincenzo Pinelli: Note-Taking, Medical Training, and Maize Biscuits 123
9. The Debate on Dissections at the University of Wittenberg: Johannes Jessenius’ Invitations to Public Anatomies 141
10. Between Aristotle, Tycho Brahe, and Astronomia Prophetica: Debating the Comets of 1618 in the Context of the Bohemian Revolt 157
11. Stanisław Niewieski’s Publication about the Great Comet of 1680 in the Context of Scholarly Cometary Discussions 183
12. Index of Names