HOST 2 Flashcards
(21 cards)
Ibn Ridwan
On the Prevention of Bodily Ills in Egypt, selection
Trotula
Book on the Condition of Women According to Trotula, selection
Hildegard
selected writings
Yue Ji
(Record of Music), selections
Sima Tan
“The Six Lineages of Thought”
Xu Guangqi
“Preface to Euclid’s Elements”
Matteo Ricci
“Concerning the Liberal Arts and Sciences Among the Chinese”
Garcilaso de la Vega
Royal Commentaries on the Incas, selection
Prosper et al. (Netukulimk)
“Returning to Netukulimk”
Copernicus
On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, “Preface to the Pope”
Vesalius
On the Fabric of the Human Body, “Preface”
Paracelsus
“The Physician’s Remedies” and “Alchemy, Art of Transformation”
Hooke
excerpts from Micrographia
Boyle
“On the Excellency and Grounds of the Corpuscular Philosophy”
Du Châtelet
Commentary on Newton’s Principia
Buffon
“Initial Discourse”
Linnaeus
“Observations on the Three Kingdoms of Nature”
Caesar
“Doctor Caesar and His Antidote for Poison”
Poskett
Horizons: A Global History of Science, selection
Seguin and Lavoisier
“First Paper on the Respiration of Animals”
Condorcet et al.
“Report to the Academy of Science on a Unit of Measure,” 19 March 1791
