'Andrea Cesalpino and the Rejection of the Celestial Spheres in Seventeenth-Century University of Edinburgh'

This is a case study on the reception of the work of Italian natural philosopher Andrea Cesalpino in early modern tertiary education. It explores the ways in which Cesalpino's views were characterised in relation to significant intellectual developments in the early modern period. It presents an original examination of contemporary sources and offers insight into how his ideas were presented and conceptualized by a network of European scholars operating within formal education at the University of Edinburgh.