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Ancient Natural History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Ancient Natural History

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005-08-08
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French finds that the same natural-historical material was used to serve the purposes of both the Greek philosopher and the Christian allegorist, or of a taxonomist like Theophrastus and a collector of curiosa like Pliny. He argues convincingly that the motives of ancient writers on nature were rarely `scientific' and, indeed, that there was not really any science at all in the ancient world. This book will make fascinating reading for students, academics and anyone who is interested in the history of science, or in the ancient history of ideas.

Medicine Before Science
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 300

Medicine Before Science

This book offers an introduction to the history of university-trained physicians from the middle ages to the eighteenth-century Enlightenment. These were the elite, in reputation and rewards, and they were successful. Yet we can form little idea of their clinical effectiveness, and to modern eyes their theory and practice often seems bizarre. But the historical evidence is that they were judged on other criteria, and the argument of this book is that these physicians helped to construct the expectations of society--and met them accordingly.

The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 344

The Medical Revolution of the Seventeenth Century

This consideration of the underlying forces which helped to produce a revolution in 17th century medicine sets out to show how, in the period between 1630 and 1730, medicine came to represent something more than a marginal activity and was influenced by the current developments of the day.

The Great Pox
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 378

The Great Pox

A century and a half after the Black Death killed over a third of the population of Western Europe, a new plague swept across the continent. The Great Pox - commonly known as the French Disease - brought a different kind of horror: instead of killing its victims rapidly, it endured in their bodies for years, causing acute pain, disfigurement and ultimately an agonising death. The authors analyse the symptoms of the Great Pox and the identity of patients, richly documented in the records of the massive hospital of 'incurables' established in early sixteenth-century Rome. They show how the disease threw accepted medical theory and practice into confusion and provoked public disputations among ...

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1228

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent and Trademark Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 370

Early Modern Medicine and Natural Philosophy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-11
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  • Publisher: Springer

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.

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1184

National Library of Medicine Current Catalog

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 546

Zoology in Early Modern Culture: Intersections of Science, Theology, Philology, and Political and Religious Education

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2014-10-09
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  • Publisher: BRILL

This volume tries to map out the intriguing amalgam of the different, partly conflicting approaches that shaped early modern zoology. Early modern reading of the “Book of Nature” comprised, among others, the description of species in the literary tradition of antiquity, as well as empirical observations, vivisection, and modern eyewitness accounts; the “translation” of zoological species into visual art for devotion, prayer, and religious education, but also scientific and scholarly curiosity; theoretical, philosophical, and theological thinking regarding God’s creation, the Flood, and the generation of animals; new attempts with respect to nomenclature and taxonomy; the discovery of unknown species in the New World; impressive Wunderkammer collections, and the keeping of exotic animals in princely menageries. The volume demonstrates that theology and philology played a pivotal role in the complex formation of this new science. Contributors include: Brian Ogilvie, Bernd Roling, Erik Jorink, Paul Smith, Sabine Kalff, Tamás Demeter, Amanda Herrin, Marrigje Rikken, Alexander Loose, Sophia Hendrikx, and Karl Enenkel.

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1228

Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1984
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Doctors and Ethics
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 316

Doctors and Ethics

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1993
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  • Publisher: Rodopi

This volume brings together original research that throws new light on how standards of behavior for medical practitioners are articulated in different religious, social, and political contexts.