The transformation of natural philosophy : the case of Philip Melanchthon /

This book proposes that Philip Melanchthon was responsible for transforming traditional university natural philosophy into a specifically Lutheran one. Motivated by desire to check civil disobedience and promote a Lutheran orthodoxy, he created a natural philosophy based on Aristotle, Galen and Plat...

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Main Author: Kusukawa, Sachiko (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
Series:Ideas in context ; 34.
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