Announcing the new publication of a collaborative volume on the Aberdonian polymath Duncan Liddel (1561-1613).
Resulting from a Wellcome Small Grant, funding from the Aberdeen Humanities Fund (a Hunter-Caldwell Award) and cooperation with the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel, Germany, we proudly announce the publication of a collection of essays on the life and context of the Aberdonian physician, mathematician and polymath Duncan Liddel (1561-1613) recently published by Brill in Leiden. Under the title Duncan Liddel (1561-1613). Networks of Polymathy and the Northern European Renaissance, a series of conference papers and articles have been edited by Dr Pietro Omodeo from the Max-Planck-Institute in collaboration with Prof. Karin Friedrich (Aberdeen) who initiated the project back in 2013, building on Duncan Liddel's library that is preserved in the Special Collection Centre of the Sir Duncan Rice Library here at the University. Cooperation with the world-renowned Herzog August Library in Germany, which also houses material relating to Liddel and the University of Helmstedt, where Duncan Liddel held a chair in Mathematics and Medicine until he returned to Aberdeen in 1608, is lso reflected in the website that recreated Liddel's library virtually and is searchable here.