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Liddel, Duncan

Born: 1561, Aberdeen, Scotland

Died: 17 December 1613, Aberdeen, Scotland

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The Scottish polymath Duncan Liddel has received significant recent attention for his international scholarly career. Trained after the humanist model, Liddel interested himself in contemporary developments in mathematics and astronomy. He is considered the first to have taught the astronomical systems of Tycho Brahe and Nicolaus Copernicus alongside the older Ptolemaic system. Involved in the Helmstedt Hofmannstreit, he influenced the development of Germany’s Melanchthonian inheritance. He published many successful medical texts, and his library is still held by the University of Aberdeen.

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  • Friedrich, Markus. 2004. Die Grenzen der Vernunft. Theologie, Philosophie und gelehrte Konflikte am Beispiel des Helmstedter Hofmannstreits und seiner Wirkungen auf das Luthertum um 1600. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.

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    Tomas Valle

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  1. University of Verona, Mantova, Italy

    Marco Sgarbi

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  1. University Ca' Foscari Venice, Dorsoduro 3246, 30123, Venice, Italy

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Valle, T. (2017). Liddel, Duncan. In: Sgarbi, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02848-4_515-1

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