Medical humanism and natural philosophy [[electronic resource] ] : Renaissance debates on matter, life, and the soul / / by Hiro Hirai

• Autore: Hirai Hiro
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (242 p.)
• Disciplina: 144.09
• Soggetto topico: Humanism - History; Physicians; Humanists; Medicine - Philosophy - History; Medicine - History; Philosophy - History
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Preliminary Material -- Introduction -- I Nicolo Leoniceno between the Arabo-Latin Tradition and the Renaissance of the Greek Commentators -- II Jean Fernel and His Christian Platonic Interpretation of Galen -- III Jacob Schegk on the Plastic Faculty and the Origin of Souls -- IV Cornelius Gemma and His Neoplatonic Reading of Hippocrates -- V Fortunio Liceti against Marsilio Ficino on the World-Soul and the Origin of Life -- VI Daniel Sennert on Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Inspired by the ideas contained in the newly recovered ancient sources, Renaissance humanists questioned the traditional teachings of universities. Humanistically trained physicians, called “medical humanists,” were particularly active in the field of natural philosophy, where alternative approaches were launched and tested. Their intellectual outcome contributed to the reorientation of philosophy toward natural questions, which were to become crucial in the seventeenth century. This volume explores six medical humanists of diverse geographical and confessional origins (Leoniceno, Fernel, Schegk, Gemma, Liceti and Sennert) and their debates on matter, life and the soul. The study of these debates sheds new light on the contributions of humanist culture to the evolution of early modern natural philosophy
• Titolo autorizzato: Medical humanism and natural philosophy
• ISBN: 1-283-39590-8; 9786613395900; 90-04-21872-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910824573503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: History of science and medicine library ; ; v. 26.; History of science and medicine library. . -Medieval and early modern science ; ; v. 17.