Jean Fernel's on the Hidden Causes of Things: Forms, Souls, and Occult Diseases in Renaissance Medicine - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9004141286 ISBN 13 : 9789004141285

Editeur : Brill, 2004

Synopsis

An annotated translation of Jean Fernel's On the Hidden Causes of Things (1542), with a scholarly introduction showing its great importance in the intellectual history of the Renaissance. The only sixteenth-century writer, apart from Paracelsus, to develop a new theory of disease, Fernel was also a leading natural philosopher. His survey of the role of occult qualities and powers in life processes, especially generation, and in contagious and pestilential diseases draws upon astrology, alchemy, and other occult sciences. Although an original and innovatory thinker, Fernel operated within the parameters of Aristotelian and Galenic philosophy, while drawing upon Platonic, Stoic and other worldviews. Accordingly, this book shows the continued vitality in traditional thought in the period just before the Scientific Revolution.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

John M. Forrester retired from a medical career in 1988. He has previously published a translation of Fernel's Physiologia of 1567 (Transaction of the American Philosophical Society, 2003).
John Henry, Ph.D. (1983) is Reader in History of Science at Edinburgh University, and has published widely on Renaissance and early modern science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Brill
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9004141286
• ISBN 13: 9789004141285
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 792
• Éditeur: Forrester John, Henry John
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