Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century

The medical revolution of the seventeenth century

Taking the other tack, Richard Palmer explores the story of the papal physicians, a subject "killed ... stone dead" by the erudition of Prospero Mandosio (1696) until resurrected by Palmer with his witty and pithy observations. The turn-of-the-seventeenth-century German Prince, Maurice of Hesse-Kassel, took a direct interest in the medical details of his court and country, which Bruce Moran exp...

European science in the seventeenth century

Dr. Knight has written an excellent book that will prove invaluable as an introductory explanation of science for a wide audience, but especially for the younger person entering this discipline. It will also be a useful text for those interested in the history of science and medicine. It is very well written and does not demand of the reader much previous knowledge of science. It richly deserve...

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. ...

Paspahegh: Visualizing a Seventeenth-Century Algonquian Indian Village in the Virginia Chesapeake

The Paspahegh Project is a reconstruction of an Algonquian Indian village in seventeenth-century Virginia. It is a collaborative venture involving an historian, computer programmer, a visual artist and two public school teachers and their students. The project joins the latest technologies and visualization techniques to textual, cartographic, and archaeological evidence to produce a virtual re...