Diplomacy of an Empire. Alternative Agents in Seventeenth-Century Sweden

Seventeenth - Century Mechanism : an Alternative Framework for Reductionism

The consensus view in philosophy of science is that reductionism is dead. One reason for this is that the deductive nomological (DN) model of explanation, on which classical reductionism depends, is widely regarded as indefensible. I argue that the DN model is inessential to the reductionist framework, and that mechanism provides a better framework for thinking about reductionism. But this runs...

Syphilis in seventeenth century Lancashire.

Medicine in seventeenth century England

ALLEN G. DEBUS (editor), Medicine in seventeenth century England, Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, University of California Press, 1974, 8vo, pp. xiii, 485, illus., £8.50. Reviewed by Kenneth Dewhurst, D.Phil., M.Litt., F.R.C.Psych., The Manor House, Sandford-onThames, Oxford 0X4 4YN. A symposium has some merits but more disadvantages, and this collection of papers in honour of the late C. D. ...

Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning

Th. H. LUNSINGH SCHEURLEER and G. H. M. POSTHUMUS MEYJES (editors), Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning, Leiden, E. J. Brill, 1975, fo, pp. viii, 496, illus., DFI. 175. In the history of medicine we judge the University of Leiden to be the most outstanding centre for medical education during the early decades of the eighteenth century. It is usually forgotten, ...

The Role of Language in Accusations of Witchcraft in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Spain

Linguistic factors played a significant role in the origin and spread of accusations of witchcraft in Early Modern Spain. The preoccupation with witches’ words is at its root a preoccupation about the power of speech and, to a great extent, of female speech. Studies in some Early European countries have connected aggressive female speech styles with accusations of witchcraft, and this article o...