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Andrea Cesalpino's ›De Plantis Libri XVI‹ (1583) and the Transformation of Medical Botany in the 16th Century
In 1583 the Italian botanist and physician Andrea Cesalpino (1524–1603) published De Plantis Libri XVI, made of 16 books (libri), considered to be the first treatise where botany is treated independently from medicine. In so doing, he broke with a long tradition inherited in Western science from Antiquity and perpetuated during the Middle Age through the early Renaissance. De Plantis lays the foundations of scientific systematics through a new focus on plant morphology and natural similarities and became a milestone in the history of Western botany. It is a precious testimony to the evolution of botanical and physiological knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and illustrates the role of Aristotelian philosophy in 16th-century knowledge. The volume includes an introductory essay about Cesalpino's philosophy and botany, a critical edition of the Latin text, a translation, a commentary, and indexes. It should interest scholars in Renaissance studies, historians, and philosophers of science and medicine, as well as botanists and plant scientists curious about the history of plant sciences.
Andrea Cesalpino's >De Plantis Libri XVI
In 1583 the Italian botanist and physician Andrea Cesalpino (1524-1603) published De Plantis Libri XVI, made of 16 books (libri), considered to be the first treatise where botany is treated independently from medicine. In so doing, he broke with a long tradition inherited in Western science from Antiquity and perpetuated during the Middle Age through the early Renaissance. De Plantis lays the foundations of scientific systematics through a new focus on plant morphology and natural similarities and became a milestone in the history of Western botany. It is a precious testimony to the evolution of botanical and physiological knowledge in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and illustrates the role of Aristotelian philosophy in 16th-century knowledge. The volume includes an introductory essay about Cesalpino's philosophy and botany, a critical edition of the Latin text, a translation, a commentary, and indexes. It should interest scholars in Renaissance studies, historians, and philosophers of science and medicine, as well as botanists and plant scientists curious about the history of plant sciences.
Ancient Greek Dialectic and Its Reception
This series provides a forum for monographs and collected volumes aiming at a philosophical discussion of the texts, topics, and arguments of ancient philosophers. The authors demonstrate that philosophical historiography not only paraphrases the claims of ancient authors, but can also reconstruct the arguments for those claims and consider ongoing discussions in modern philosophy, thus enriching the philosophical debate of our time.
Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism
Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany. By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotle's texts on his work, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas. Cesalpino's relation to the new sciences of the 16th century are traced through his direct influences, on cosmology, botany, and medicine. In combining Cesalpino's reception of these traditions alongside his connections to early modern science, this book provides a vital case study of Renaissance Aristotelianism.
La fuite du monde dans la philosophie de Plotin
La fuite du monde est une préoccupation importante du public lettré du IIIe siècle, troublé par d?importantes crises sociales et politiques; Plotin le reformule philosophiquement afin d?y apporter réponse. En partant d?un postulat de systématicité de sa pensée, cet ouvrage examine la définition qu?il propose du sujet d?une telle fuite (le ?nous?), la possibilité et la désirabilité de sa réalisation, avant de s?intéresser à ses modalités philosophiques et éthiques, pour conclure sur la divinisation qui en résulte par union à l?Intelligence et à l?Un. Cette fuite se révèle être un prolongement du rapport naturel au monde, caractérisé par un universel amour de l?unité qui tend nécessairement à la contemplation, et vise à l?optimiser. Le ?nous?, illumination du corps par l?âme, devient dans le processus un divin sage, qui à son tour assume un rôle d?enseignement, s?alignant dans ses actes sur la Providence universelle.
Textes Cles de Philosophie Du Vegetal
La chose est connue : parler des animaux, c'est parler des hommes. Mais parler des vegetaux? N'est-ce parler que d'amenagement du territoire? Leur presence est vitale, nous ne le nions pas, mais faisons-nous autre chose que les reduire a notre usage? Et, pourtant, ce sont des etres vivants : ils naissent, ils croissent, ils meurent, ils se reproduisent. Ils ont leur place dans l'evolution de la vie. Jusqu'aux temps modernes, des botanistes, des philosophes parlerent de l'ame des plantes, c'est-a-dire du principe de vie qui les anime. Ils entreprirent aussi de les classer et d'en comprendre le fonctionnement. Aujourd'hui, l'exploitation industrielle domine nos rapports aux vegetaux.. Mais les...
Parmenides of Elea
David Gallop provides a Greek text and a new facing-page translation of the extant fragments of Parmenides' philosophical poem. He also includes the first complete translation into English of the contexts in which the fragments have been transmitted to us, and of the ancient testimonia regarding Parmenides' life and thought. All of the fragments have been translated in full and are arranged in the order that has become canonical since the publication of the fifth edition of Diels-Rranz's Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker. Alternative renderings are provided for passages whose meaning is disputed or where major questions of interpretation hinge upon the text or translation adopted. In an extended introductory essay, Gallop offers guidance on the background of the poem, and a continuous exposition of it, together with a critical discussion of its basic argument. The volume also includes an extensive bibliography, a glossary of key terms in the poem, and a section on sources and authorities.
Polemics and Networking in Graeco-Roman Antiquity
Disagreement, rivalry and dispute are essential to any intellectual development. This holds true for ancient cultures no less than for us today. From the classical period to the Hellenistic age and to Late Antiquity, competition and polemics have shaped the course of intellectual history in Antiquity. Polemical encounters and controversies are often linked to group identities and intellectual networks such as philosophical schools, textual traditions, artistic circles and religious communities. This collection of studies sprang from the ambition to study the interplay between polemics and intellectual networks from a variety of perspectives and disciplines.0The volume gathers fifteen case st...
The Reception of Plato’s ›Phaedrus‹ from Antiquity to the Renaissance
This volume explores the tremendous influence of Plato’s Phaedrus on the philosophical, religious, scientific and literary discussions in the West. Ranging from Plato’s first readers, over the Church Fathers and the Platonic commentators, to Byzantine and Renaissance thinkers, the papers collected here introduce the reader to the first two millennia of the dialogue’s reception history. Thirteen contributions by both junior and established scholars study the engagement with the Phaedrus by such major figures as Aristotle, Galen, Origen, Clemens of Alexandria, Plotinus, Augustine, Proclus, Psellus, Ficino, Erasmus, and many others. Together, they cover the wide range of topics discussed ...
