Medicine, Natural Philosophy and Religion in Post-Reformation Scandinavia

Ole Peter Grell is Professor in Early Modern History and Director of the Renaissance and Early Modern Research Group at The Open University, UK. Andrew Cunningham is former Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK.

CONTENTS

List of Contributors

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction: Ole Peter Grell

2. Philip Melanchthon and his significance for natural philosophy: Andrew Cunningham

3. Daniel Sennert and the chymico-atomical reform of medicine: Joel A. Klein

4. The changing face of Lutheranism in post-Reformation Denmark: Rasmus H. C. Dreyer

5. After Tycho: Philippist astronomy and cosmology in the work of Brahe's Scandinavian assistants: Adam Mosley

6. The Book of Nature and the Word of God. Lutheran natural philosophy and medicine in early 17th century Denmark and Norway: Morten Fink-Jensen

7. Holger Rosenkrantz, 'the Learned' (1574-1642): Jens Glebe-Møller

8. The significance of monstrous births in Thomas Bartholin’s natural philosophy: Signe Nipper Nielsen

9. Three seventeenth century manuals on how and where to study medicine: Ole Peter Grell

10. The natural philosophy of Sigfrid Aronus Forsius: between the Created World and God: Terhi Kiiskinen

11. Johannes Bureus and the Prisca Astronomia: A Lutheran Antiquary Engages with the New Science: Matthew Norris

12. By Natural Means: Magic and Medicine in Ericus Johannis Prytz’ Magia incantatrix (1632): Martin Kjellgren

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