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Article: Melanchthon und die Naturwissenschaften seiner Zeit.
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- December 1, 2000
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Melanchthon und die Naturwissenschaften seiner Zeit. Edited by Gunther Frank and Stefan Rhein. Melanchthon-Schriften der Stadt Bretten 4. Sigmaringen: Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 1998. 329 pp. 58 DM.
These essays originated in a 1994 conference in Philipp Melanchthon's native city of Bretten, an event marked by the presentation of its Melanchthon Prize to the Dutch historian Cornelis Augustijn. Unlike many such collections, it possesses a high degree of unity. The authors achieved notable success in exploring a significant but neglected topic from varied disciplinary perspectives.
Two important generalizations emerge from the book. First, although Melanchthon ...