Elias Ashmole. The Quartecentenary Biography.
- Series: Storia della Medicina, 2
- Pages and Illustrations: 268
- Publication Year: 2017
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MONOGRAPHIC SERIES ON HISTORY OF MEDICINE LERMA DI BRETSCHNEIDER
Series founded by Roberto Marcucci and Fabio Zampieri
Director
Fabio Zampieri, Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua.
Monographic series on History of Medicine by LErma di Bretschneider are open to medico-historical researches in all their meanings and approaches, such as history of medical ideas, history of health practices (clinical, experimental, public health), history of diseases and biological evolution in connection with diseases, history of health institutions (Hospices, Lazarettos, Clinics, Hospitals, Speciality Institutions, Schools and Universities, political Health Institutions), medical museology, medical historiography, medical biographies and paleopathology. It accepts original contributions on issues from prehistory to contemporary time, discussed by a sound documentary basis and clear exposition, inserted in the general context of the evolution of human thought and civilization, preferably able to cast new light not only on the past, but also on the present time.
Scientific Committee
Corbellini, Gilberto. Social Sciences and Humanities, Cultural Heritage, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche.
Fantini, Bernardino. Facult
Gazzaniga, Valentina. Dept. of Biotechnology and Medico-Surgical Sciences,University of Rome La Sapienza.
Giaretta, Pierdaniele. Dept. of Philosophy, Sociology, Education and Applied Psychology, University of Padua.
Gourevitch, Danielle. Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (EPHE) of Paris.
Mazzarello, Paolo. Dept. of Neurological Sciences, University of Pavia.
Silvano, Giovanni. Dept. of Historical and Geographic Sciences and the Ancient World, University of Padua.
Thiene, Gaetano. Dept. of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua. Van den Tweel, Jan. Dept. of Pathology, University Medical Center of Utrecht.
Editorial Committee
Bigotti, Fabrizio. Centre for Medical History, College of Humanities, University of Exeter.
Galassi, Francesco. Institut f
Zanatta, Alberto. Department of Cardiac, Thoracic and Vascular Sciences, University of Padua.
The committee assures the scientific value of published books by a peer review process
Preface
Introduction
Abbreviations
CHAPTER 1.
Hard times in Lichfield
CHAPTER 2.
Stepping on to Fortune' s ladder
CHAPTER 3.
A universal scholar'
CHAPTER 4.
Ashmole, astronomy and alchemy
CHAPTER 5.
Monarchy and heraldry
CHAPTER 6.
Ashmole the antiquary
CHAPTER 7.
The birth of the Ashmolean Museum
CHAPTER 8.
A man among his books
CHAPTER 9.
Ashmole' s greatest gift to posterity
CHAPTER 10
An English Worthy
A note on Ashmole' s Diary'
Bibliography
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