Medicine, natural philosophy and religion in post-Reformation Scandinavia / edited by Ole Peter Grell and Andrew Cunningham.

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.

vi, 220 pages : 1 black and white illustration ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction / Ole Peter Grell -- 2. Philip Melanchthon and his significance for natural philosophy / Andrew Cunningham -- 3. Daniel Sennert and the chymico-atomical reform of medicine / Joel A. Klein -- 4. The changing face of Lutheranism in post-Reformation Denmark / Rasmus H. Dreyer -- 5. After Tycho : Philippist astronomy and cosmology in the work of Brahe's Scandinavian assistants -- 6. The book of nature and the word of God : Lutheran natural philosophy and medicine in early-seventeenth-century Denmark and Norway / Morten Fink-Jensen -- 7. Holger Rosenkrantz, 'the Learned' (1574-1642) / Jens Glebe-Møller -- 8. The significance of monstrous births in Thomas Bartholin's natural philosophy / Signe Nipper Nielsen -- 9. Three seventeenth-century manuals on how and where to study medicine / Ole Peter Grell -- 10. The natural philosophy of Sigfrid Aronus Forsius : between the created world and God / Terhi Kiiskinen -- 11. Johannes Bureus and the prisca astronomia : a Lutheran antiquary engages with the new science / Matthew Norris -- 12. By natural means : magic and medicine in Ericus Johannis Prytz's Magia incantatrix (1632) / Martin Kjellgren.