Nancy Siraisi

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Nancy Gillian Siraisi (* 1932 in Catterick / Yorkshire ) is an American historian of science.

Nancy G. Siraisi studied at Oxford University (bachelor's degree in 1953 and master's degree in 1958) and received her doctorate in 1970 from the City University of New York (CUNY). From 1970 to 2003 she was a professor at Hunter College and from 1976 also at the Graduate Center of CUNY. As a science historian, she mainly deals with the medical history of the Renaissance and the Middle Ages. For example, she wrote the biography of the Renaissance medic Taddeo Alderotti and his school in Bologna in the 13th century and that of Girolamo Cardano (particularly about his work as a medic). She also examined the medical practice of the time and the cultural and historical embedding of medicine.

In 1997 she was admitted to the American Philosophical Society . In 2003 she received the George Sarton Medal . In 2008 she received a MacArthur Fellowship .

Fonts

  • Taddeo Alderotti and His Pupils - two generations of Italien medieval learning, Princeton University Press 1981
  • Medieval and early Renaissance medicine. An introduction to knowledge and practice, University of Chicago Press, Chicago / London 1990
  • History, Medicine, and the Traditions of Renaissance Learning, University of Michigan Press, 2008
  • Medicine and the italian universities 1250-1600, Brill, Leiden 2001
  • Avicenna in Renaissance Italy. The "Canon" and medical teaching in Italian universities after 1500, Princeton University Press, Princeton (New Jersey) 1987
  • The clock and the mirror: Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine, Princeton University Press 1997
  • Editor with Anthony Grafton: Natural particular - nature and the disciplines in renaissance europe, MIT Press 1999
  • Editor with Gianna Pomata: Historia: empiricism and erudition in early modern Europe, MIT Press 2005
  • with Anthony Grafton , April Shelford: New worlds, ancient texts. The power of tradition and the shock of discovery, Belknap Press 1992
  • Art and Sciences at Padua- the studium of Padua before 1350, Toronto, Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies 1973

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member History: Nancy Siraisi. American Philosophical Society, accessed January 28, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Siraisi, Nancy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Siraisi, Nancy G.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American historian of science
DATE OF BIRTH 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Catterick