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December 4, 2009

The Natural Science of the Biblical World in Late Renaissance Italy

Andrew Berns is a graduate student in the History Department at the University of Pennsylvania.  He received a Dissertation Research Fellowship for his studies of the connections between medical and biblical commentaries in late Renaissance Italy. 

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From Daniel Elliot’s A monograph of the Phasianidæ, or family of the pheasants, 1872. Image courtesy of The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.