LEADER 06120nam 2200505 450 001 9910763589403321 005 20231124093304.0 010 $a3-031-15725-7 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC30881025 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL30881025 035 $a(EXLCZ)9928817632600041 100 $a20231124d2023 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century $eIntersections of Medicine and Philosophy /$fedited by Simone Guidi and Joaquim Braga 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aCham, Switzerland :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d[2023] 210 4$d©2023 215 $a1 online resource (326 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Medicine Series 300 $aIncludes index. 311 08$aPrint version: Guidi, Simone The Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031157240 327 $aIntro -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Meanings of Quantification -- 2 The Metaphysics of Quantity and Measurement -- 3 The More, the Less, the Whole, the Body -- 4 The Quanti-Mathe-Mechanization of Nature and the Human Body as a Laboratory -- 5 The Fall of Mechanization and the New Life of Quantity -- 6 Overlapping Paths -- The More the Years the Less the Food: Alvise Cornaro on The Sober Life (1558) -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Cornaro and the Moral Question of Quantity -- 3 Quantity (of Food) Matters -- 4 Some Lies and 'The Cumulative Advantages of Added Years' -- 5 Leonhard Lessius SJ, Exporting Cornaro and His Proportions -- 6 Dissolution as Conclusion -- The Quantification of Talents: Education, Galenic Humoralism, and Classification of Wits in Early Modern Culture -- 1 Early Modern Educational Thought, Between Politics and Morals -- 2 The Qualitative Body in the Pseudo-Plutarchean De liberis educandis -- 3 "Queriendo reducir a arte esta nueva manera de filosofar": Juan Huarte's Work and the Beginnings of a Quantitative Approach to Educational Selection -- 4 Concluding Remarks: The Ingenium from Soul Faculty to Organic Function -- Quali-quantitative Measurement in Francis Bacon's Medicine. Toward a New Branch of Mixed Mathematics -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Ontology of Measurement -- 3 Mixed Mathematics, Physics, and Medicine -- 4 The Quali-quantitative Approach to Measurement -- 5 Quali-Quantitative Measures in Medicine: Some Examples -- 5.1 General Quantitative Registers -- 5.2 Mensura Quanti -- 5.3 Mensura Temporis -- 5.4 Mensura Spatii -- 5.5 Mensura Fortitudinis, Mensura Peristaseos -- 6 Conclusion -- Sanctorius's Weighing Chair: Measurement, Metabolism, and Mind -- 1 Insensible Perspiration -- 2 Exercise of the Mind -- 3 Quantified Selfhood -- 4 Conclusion. 327 $aThe Rise of Quantitative Biology in the Cartesian Age: The Theories of Preformation -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Malebranche's Theory of Preformation -- 3 Régis' (Limited) Theory of Preformation -- 4 Conclusion -- 'Nature is More Subtle Than Any Mathematician': Giorgio Baglivi on Fluids in the Human Body -- 1 The Intricate Nature of Disease -- 2 An Overview of De praxi medica, bk. I, Chs. 10-11 -- 3 Analogical Reasoning and Quantification in Physiology -- 4 Blood, Saliva and Bile Matters: 'Anatomising' Body Fluids -- 5 Conclusion -- "The Human Body Should Be Investigated in All Its Details to the Most Precise Degree?". Leibniz on the Quantification of Body in Medicine -- 1 Leibniz's Directiones (1671). A Primer in Quantification? -- 2 Collecting Data -- 3 Anatomy -- 4 Medical Statistics -- 5 Instruments of Measure -- 6 The Interior of Nature and the Limits of Mechanization -- Appendix: Leibniz "De re medica augenda" -- Data vs. Mathesis. Contrasting Epistemologies in Some Mechanizations and Quantifications of Medicine -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Struggling for Certainty -- 2.1 Pitcairne and Keill -- 2.2 Axiomatic Reasoning and Medicine: Gaukes and Hoffmann -- 3 Quantifying Physiology: Contrasting Approaches -- 3.1 The Newtonians: From Ratios to Measurements -- 3.2 The Rationalists: Statics and Quantification -- 4 Conclusion -- The Pulse Watch and the Physician's Senses: John Floyer on the Quantification of the Body -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Pulse Watch and the Mechanist View -- 3 Floyer on the Limits of the Mechanist View -- 4 The Necessity of the Pulse Watch -- 5 Conclusion -- Against the Quantification of the Living: Hegel's Critique of Romantic Naturphilosophie in the Phenomenology of Spirit -- 1 Hegel's Conception of the Living Organism -- 2 Observing Reason and the Phenomenological Genesis of Romantic Naturphilosophie. 327 $a3 The Controversy Concerning Romantic Naturphilosophie -- 3.1 The Inner-Outer Relationship in Romantic Naturphilosophie -- 3.2 Hegel's Criticism of Phrenology -- 3.3 Hegel's Criticism of the Schelling-Inspired Naturphilosophie -- 4 Conclusion -- Measuring the Mind: The French Debate on Fechner's Psychophysics in the Late Nineteenth Century -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Fechner's Psychophysics and Its Introduction into France -- 3 Mathematical Issues of Fechner's Law -- 4 Bergson and Fechner: Quality or Quantity? -- 5 Conclusion -- Index. 410 0$aPalgrave studies in medieval and early modern medicine. 606 $aHuman body (Philosophy) 606 $aMedicine$xHistory 606 $aMedicine$xPhilosophy 615 0$aHuman body (Philosophy) 615 0$aMedicine$xHistory. 615 0$aMedicine$xPhilosophy. 676 $a128.6 702 $aGuidi$b Simone$f1984- 702 $aBraga$b Joaquim 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910763589403321 996 $aThe Quantification of Life and Health from the Sixteenth to the Nineteenth Century$93645493 997 $aUNINA