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List of contributors
Introduction
Raphaële Andrault and Mogens Lærke
I. From Natural Philosophy to Theology
1. Modus politicus vivendi. Nicolaus Steno and the Dutch (Swammerdam, Spinoza and other friends), 1660–1664
Erik Jorink
2. Jesuits, Women, Money or Natural Theology? Nicolas Steno’s Conversion to Catholicism in 1667
Sebastian Olden-Jørgensen
3. Leibniz and Steno, 1675–1680
Mogens Lærke
II. Anatomy and Metaphysics: Steno and Cartesianism
4. Human Brain and Human Mind. The Discourse on the Anatomy of the Brain and its philosophical reception
Raphaële Andrault
5. Steno’s Critique of Descartes and Louis de La Forge’s Response
Vasiliki Grigoropoulou
6. Steno’s Myology: The Right Theory at the Wrong Time
Troels Kardel
III. The Natural History of the Earth
7. Thinking from Traces Nicolas Steno’s Palaeontology and the Method of Science
Justin E. H. Smith
8. Steno, Leibniz, and the History of the World
Daniel Garber
IV. Steno at the Medici Court
9. Steno’s Historia. Methods and Practices at the Court of Ferdinando II
Jakob Bek-Thomsen
10. Some observations on Nicolas Steno as a critical reader at the borderline of natural science and theology: André Martin and Giordano Bruno
Frank Sobiech
11. Steno in Italy. From Florence to Rome
Pina Totaro
Index of names