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Hardcover in publisher’s dust-jacket. 449 pages. Bibliography, Index. Illustrated with drawings and engravings. First edition, first printing with full number line. A social, political and intellectual history of the revitalized rise of the discipline of ‘natural science’ in Renaissance Italy as an amalgam of Aristotelian text-based science and an emerging empirical method of study. No previous ownership marks. A clean, tight, fresh and unmarked copy. Dust-jacket protected by acetate covers. Near fine in a near fine dust-jacket.