Evidence in the Age of the New Sciences

Chapter 1: Evidence and the Disciplines of Knowing in Early Modern Europe (James A.T. Lancaster).- Part I: Evidence & Method.- Chapter 2: Legal Proof and Probability in Early Modern England (Lisa Klotz).- Chapter 3: Seeking Intellectual Evidence in the Sciences: The Role of Botany in Descartes' Therapeutics (Fabrizio Baldassarri).- Chapter 4: Towards Descartes' Scientific Method of Doubt: a posteriori Evidence and The Rhetoric of Les Météores (Patrick Brissey).- Part II: Instruments of Evidence & Observation.- Chapter 5: Locke, Pyrard, and Coconuts: Travel Literature as Natural History (Patrick J. Connolly).- Chapter 6: The Visibility of the Romana Ecclesia: Cesare Baronio and the Disclosure of the Invisible (Filip Malesevic).- Chapter 7: From the divine monochord to the weather-glass: Changing perspectives in Robert Fludd's philosophy (Luca Guariento).- Chapter 8: Magical and Mechanical Evidence: The Late-Renaissance Automata of Francesco I de' Medici (Lily Filson).- Part III: Assessing & Assimilating Evidence in its Contexts.- Chapter 9: Searching for Mt. Carmel in the New World: Fray Antonio Vázquez de Espinosa and Confessional Geography (Ran Segev).- Chapter 10: Hutchinsonianism, Newtonian Science, and the Question of Evidence in a Fragmenting World (Robert L. Knetsch).- Chapter 11: Diet and Hygiene between Ethics and Medicine: The Reception of Alvise Cornaro's La Vita Sobria in Early XVII Century England (Federico Bellini).- Chapter 12: Prognostic birds and vulgar errors. Popular naturalism in early modern England, 1550-1800 (Jennifer Mori).