Un fascinante recorrido por la historia oculta de la medicina, que durante más de 2300 años prefirió ignorar la evidencia y aferrarse a una tradición que causaba más dolor que alivio.
Vivimos en un mundo hecho por la ciencia pero ¿desde cua?ndo es asi?? Este libro cuenta la historia de la extraordinaria revolucio?n intelectual y cultural que dio a luz a la ciencia moderna, y supuso un gran desafi?o a la ortodoxia prevaleciente...
We live in a world made by science. How and when did this happen? This book tells the story of the extraordinary intellectual and cultural revolution that gave birth to modern science, and mounts a major challenge to the prevailing orthodoxy of its histor...
Paolo Sarpi (1552-1623) is remembered as the defender of Venice against the Papal Interdict of 1606 and as the first, and greatest, historian of the Counter-Reformation. The sources of his undoubted hostility to clerical authority have always been a matte...
This examination of republicanism in an Anglo-American and European context gives weight not only to the thought of the theorists of republicanism but also to the practical experience of republican governments in England, Geneva, the Netherlands, and Veni...