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History of universities. Volume XXVIII/2 / Mordechai Feingold

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Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015.
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First edition.
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1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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Feingold, Mordechai
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Contents
Machine generated contents note: Articles -- A Book, a Pen, and the Sphere: Reading Sacrobosco in the Renaissance / Richard J. Oosterhoff -- The Formal Presence of the Ancients: References to Ancient Greek and Roman Authors in Medical and Political Science Dissertations, ca. 1625--1850 / Anna Fredriksson -- The Academic Study of Arabic in Seventeenth- and Early Eighteenth-Century Protestant Germany: A Preliminary Sketch / Asaph Ben-Tov -- From Political Rejection to Scientific Renewal: Chaim Weizmann and the Foundation of the Sieff Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine 1931--1934 / Uri Cohen -- Reviews -- Olga Weijers, In Search of the Truth. A History of Disputation Techniques from Antiquity to Early Modern Times / Ann Blair -- Jacques Verger & Olga Weijers (eds), Les debuts de l'enseignement universitaire a Paris (1200--1245 environ) / William J. Courtenay -- Peter Meusburger and Thomas Schuch (eds.), Wissenschaftsatlas der Universitat Heidelberg / Howard Hotson -- Daniela Progler, English Students at Leiden University, 1575--1650. `Advancing your abilities in learning and bettering your understanding of the world and state affairs' / Esther Mijers -- Jan Loop, Johann Heinrich Hottinger: Arabic and Islamic Studies in the Seventeenth Century / G. J. Toomer -- Jens Bruning, Innovation in Forschung und Lehre. Die Philosophische Fakultat der Universitat Helmstedt in der Fruhaufklarung 1680--1740 / Joseph S. Freedman -- Mark Burden ed., Dissenting Academies Online / John Spurr -- Yasmin Haskell, Prescribing Ovid: the Latin Works and Networks of the Enlightened Dr Heerkens (London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2013), xii + 268pp / David Money -- Scott Mandelbrote & John H.R. Davis eds, The Warden's Punishment Book of All Souls College, Oxford 1601--1850 / William Poole.
Summary
Volume XXVIII/2 of 'History of Universities' contains the customary mix of learned articles and book reviews which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. The chapter topics covered include: reading Sacrobosco in the Renaissance; references to ancient Greece and Roman authors in medical and political science dissertations from 1625 to 1850; the study of Arabic in seventeenth- and early eighteen-century Protestant Germany; and the foundation of the Sieff Research Institute in Mandatory Palestine from 1931 to 1934.
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ISBN
9780191803826 (ebook)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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