
Advancement of Learning in Stuart Scotland, 1679-89
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- Front Cover
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: The Historical Context
- 1. 'Th'established hierarchy to secure': Politics, Ideology the and Patronage of Learning
- 2. 'He knew his grandfather's hand': the Patronage of the Medical Profession
- 3. 'The Natural History of that kingdom': Sir Robert Sibbald and the Description of Scotland
- 4. 'A firm and stable Rule, which will ply to no obliquity': the Legal Profession and the Stuart S
- 5. 'A whole Man and his whole Age': Sir George Mackenzie and the Advancement of Learning
- 6. 'All dew incurradgement': Patronage and Learning in the Church and Universities
- 7. 'The centre of virtue in this kingdome': the Development of Edinburgh as a Learned Instituti
- 8. 'What was most remarkable a doing by the learned': the Scottish Virtuoso Tradition and the Repub
- Conclusion: 'Intellectual alchemy'?
- Bibliography
- Index
- St Andrews Studies in Scottish History: Previously published
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