This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 - c. 216
AD) in early modern philosophy, science, and medicine. After a
short revival due to the humanistic rediscovery of his works, the
influence of the great ancient physician on Western thought seemed
to decline rapidly as new discoveries made his anatomy, physiology,
and therapeutics more and more obsolete. In fact, even though
Galenism was gradually dismissed as a system, several of his ideas
spread through the modern world and left their mark on natural
philosophy, rational theology, teleology, physiology, biology,
botany, and the philosophy of medicine. Without Galen, none of
these modern disciplines would have been the same. Linking
Renaissance with the Enlightenment, the eleven chapters of this
book offer a unique and detailed survey of both scientific and
philosophical Galenisms from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth
century. Figures discussed include Julius Caesar Scaliger,
Giambattista Da Monte, Hyeronimus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Andrea
Cesalpino, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, Henry More, Ralph Cudworth,
Robert Boyle, John Locke, Guillaume Lamy, Jean-Baptiste Verduc,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, Julien Offray de La
Mettrie, Denis Diderot, and Kurt Sprengel.
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