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This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine
and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments.
The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of
contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and
Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical
debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and on to
eighteenth-century controversies over medical materialism and
'atheism.' The work presented here broadens our understanding of
both philosophy and medicine in this period by illustrating the
ways these disciplines were in deep theoretical and methodological
dialogue and by demonstrating the importance of this dialogue for
understanding their history. Taken together, these papers argue
that to overlook the medical context of natural philosophy and the
philosophical context of medicine is to overlook fundamentally
important aspects of these intellectual endeavors.
This volume presents an innovative look at early modern medicine
and natural philosophy as historically interrelated developments.
The individual chapters chart this interrelation in a variety of
contexts, from the Humanists who drew on Hippocrates, Galen, and
Aristotle to answer philosophical and medical questions, to medical
debates on the limits and power of mechanism, and on to
eighteenth-century controversies over medical materialism and
'atheism.' The work presented here broadens our understanding of
both philosophy and medicine in this period by illustrating the
ways these disciplines were in deep theoretical and methodological
dialogue and by demonstrating the importance of this dialogue for
understanding their history. Taken together, these papers argue
that to overlook the medical context of natural philosophy and the
philosophical context of medicine is to overlook fundamentally
important aspects of these intellectual endeavors.
This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a
fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation
of medical recipes and letters, which is held in the University of
Nottingham. Collected by the Marquess and Marchioness of Newcastle,
William and Margaret Cavendish, during the 1640s and 1650s, this
manuscript features letters of advice, recipes, and sundry
philosophical and medical reflections by some of the most
formidable and influential physicians, philosophers, and courtly
scholars of the early seventeenth century. These include "Europe's
physician" Theodore de Mayerne, the adventurer and courtier Kenelm
Digby, and the natural philosopher, poet, and playwright Margaret
Cavendish. While the transcription and accompanying annotations
will allow a diverse array of readers to appreciate the manuscript
for the first time, the introduction situates the Cavendishes'
recipe collecting habits, medical preoccupations, natural
philosophical views, and politics within their social, cultural,
and philosophical contexts, and draws out some of the most
significant implications of this important document.
This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal
generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving
primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically
from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two
related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic. The
book contains a classification and critique of works that touch on
the history of embryology and animal generation written before
1980. It also contains translations of key sections of the works on
which it is focused. It looks at two different scholarly
communities: the physicians (medici) and philosophers (philosophi),
that share a set of textual resources and philosophical lineages,
as well as a shared problem (explaining animal generation), but
that nevertheless have different concerns and commitments. The book
demonstrates how those working in these two traditions not only
shared a common philosophical background in the arts curricula of
the universities, but were in constant intercourse with each other.
This book presents a test case of how scholarly communities
differentiate themselves from each other through methods of
argument, empirical investigation, and textual interpretations. It
is all the more interesting because the two communities under
investigation have so much in common and yet, in the end, are
distinct in a number of important ways.
This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal
generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving
primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically
from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two
related medical traditions, the Hippocratic and the Galenic. The
book contains a classification and critique of works that touch on
the history of embryology and animal generation written before
1980. It also contains translations of key sections of the works on
which it is focused. It looks at two different scholarly
communities: the physicians (medici) and philosophers (philosophi),
that share a set of textual resources and philosophical lineages,
as well as a shared problem (explaining animal generation), but
that nevertheless have different concerns and commitments. The book
demonstrates how those working in these two traditions not only
shared a common philosophical background in the arts curricula of
the universities, but were in constant intercourse with each other.
This book presents a test case of how scholarly communities
differentiate themselves from each other through methods of
argument, empirical investigation, and textual interpretations. It
is all the more interesting because the two communities under
investigation have so much in common and yet, in the end, are
distinct in a number of important ways.
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