Humanism and the Rise of Science in Tudor England

[0-88202-001-3] 1972. (Hardcover) Very good plus in very good plus dust jacket. 258pp. Dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on the spine. Top edge stained blue. Notes, illustrations, facsimiles, diagrams, bibliography, index. There are two minor ink marks on the bottom edge and fore-edge. "This work is of great interest not only to historians of science, but to all those concerned with Tudor and intellectual history. It is an original and scholarly account of the intellectual transformation of Tudor England, especially in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, medicine, education, and printing. Advances in these fields are seen against the social and political background of the time which both made possible and encouraged this transformation". Time Period Tudor England. (History--England, Education, History--England, Humanism, Intellectual Life, Mathematics, Medicine, Natural History, Printing Presses, Social History).