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Comets! Magnets! Armadillos! In this wide-ranging interview Lorraine Daston tells us how Renaissance and early modern scientists dealt with the extraordinary events they called "wonders".
Johannes Kepler fuses Platonist philosophy with a modified version of Copernicus’ astronomy.
Responses to Copernicus in the 16th century, culminating with the master of astral observation Tycho Brahe.
How revolutionary was the Copernican Revolution?
Schegk, Taurellus, Gorlaeus, and Sennert revive atomism to explain chemical reactions, the composition of bodies, and the generation of organisms.
Paracelsus adapts the tradition of alchemical science for use in medicine, and in the process overturns the scientific theories of Aristotle and Galen.
Was Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa a dark magician, a pious skeptic, or both?
Luther’s close ally Melanchthon uses his knowledge of ancient philosophy and rhetoric in the service of the Reformation.
Trends in Aristotelian philosophy in northern and eastern Europe in the fifteenth century, featuring discussion of the “Wegestreit” and the nominalist theology of Gabriel Biel.
How humanism and scholasticism came together with the Protestant Reformation to create the philosophy of 15-16th century Europe.
Did Galileo’s scientific discoveries grow out of the culture of the Italian Renaissance?
Giordano Bruno’s stunning vision of an infinite universe with infinite worlds, and his own untimely end.
Our guest Brian Copenhaver joins us to explain how Ficino and other Renaissance philosophers thought about magic.
Ficino, Pico, Cardano, and other Renaissance thinkers debate whether astrology and magic are legitimate sciences with a foundation in natural philosophy.
Was the natural philosophy of Bernardino Telesio and Tommaso Campanella the first modern physical theory?
An interview with Guido Giglioni, who speaks to us about the sources and philosophical implications of medical works of the Renaissance.
The polymath Girolamo Cardano explores medicine, mathematics, philosophy of mind, and the interpretation of dreams.
Connections between philosophy and advances in medicine, including the anatomy of Vesalius.
An interview with Dag Nikolaus Hasse on the Renaissance reception of Averroes, Avicenna, and other authors who wrote in Arabic.
Jacopo Zabarella outlines the correct method for pursuing, and then presenting, scientific discoveries.
