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Blair, Ann

The Theater of Nature: Jean Bodin and Renaissance Science

Princeton: Princeton University Press 382 pp., $45.00, ISBN 0-691-05675-7 Publication Date: November 1997

Historians of science, philosophy, and religion will find much to admire in this masterly study of the seldom-read last work of a sixteenth-century writer better known for his writings on political philosophy and the occult. Readers interested in early modern thought, especially that of a writer who was not a physician or university based, may also be stimulated by this book. The author, Ann ...

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