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Author : Walter Pagel
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3805522096
'This book is clearly an essential one-not only for the Harvey specialist, but also for all students of the Scientific Revolution.'
Author : Walter Pagel
Publisher : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 3805522096
'This book is clearly an essential one-not only for the Harvey specialist, but also for all students of the Scientific Revolution.'
Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780199976911
In 1628, the English physician William Harvey published his revolutionary theory of blood circulation. Offering a radical conception of the workings of the human body and the function of the heart, Harvey's theory overthrew centuries of anatomical and physiological orthodoxy and had profound consequences for the history of science. It also had an enormous impact on culture more generally, influencing economists, poets and political thinkers, for whom the theory triumphed not as empirical fact but as a remarkable philosophical idea. In the first major biographical study of Harvey in 50 years, Thomas Wright charts the meteoric rise of a yeoman's son to the elevated position of King Charles I's physician, taking the reader from farmlands of Kent to England's royal palaces, and paints a vivid portrait of an extraordinary mind formed at a fertile time in England's intellectual history. Set in late Renaissance London, the book features an illustrious cast of historical characters, from Francis Bacon and John Donne to Robert Fludd, whose corroboration of Harvey's ideas helped launch his circulation theory. After he published his discoveries, Harvey became famous throughout Europe, where he demonstrated his theory through public vivisections. Although his ideas met with vociferous opposition, they eventually triumphed and Harvey became renowned as the only man in the history of natural philosophy to live to see a revolutionary theory gain wide currency. But just as intellectual ideas could be toppled, so too could kings. When Charles I was overthrown during the Civil War of the 1640s, his loyal court physician fell also, and Harvey, an unrepentant Royalist, was banished from London under the English Republic. He died in the late 1650s, a gout-ridden, melancholy man, uncertain of his achievement. A victim of the political turmoil of the times, William Harvey was nevertheless the mainspring of vast historical changes in anatomy and physiology. Wright's biography skillfully repositions Harvey as a man who embodied the intellectual and cultural spirit of his age, and launched a revolution that would continue to run its course long after his death.
Author : Thomas Edward Wright
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199931699
"Originally published, in a slightly different format, as Circulation: William Harvey's revolutionary idea, in Great Britain by Chatto & Windus, 2012"--T.p. verso.
Author : Andrew Cunningham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000610796
This book presents a new interpretation of how and why the discovery of the circulation of the blood in animals was made. It has long been known that the English physician William Harvey (1578–1657) was a follower of Aristotle, but his most strikingly ‘modern’ and original discovery – of the circulation of the blood – resulted from Harvey following Aristotle’s ancient programme of investigation into animals. This is a new reading of the most important discovery ever made in anatomy by one man and produces not only a radical re-reading of Harvey as anatomist, but also of Aristotle and his investigations of animals.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789004418233
As periodical of the International Academy of the History of Medicine, this Clio Medica volume contains 19 papers.
Author : Lisa Yount
Publisher : Enslow Publishing, LLC
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766065864
In the 17th century the English physician, William Harvey described for the first time the details of the human circulatory system. Harvey discovered that the heart was a muscle and that by contracting, pushed blood through the body. He worked out the whole pattern of the heartbeat. William Harvey's genius changed how people understood the workings of the human body. This marked on the greatest advances in the study of medicine.
Author : Marco Sgarbi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 3618 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319141695
Gives accurate and reliable summaries of the current state of research. It includes entries on philosophers, problems, terms, historical periods, subjects and the cultural context of Renaissance Philosophy. Furthermore, it covers Latin, Arabic, Jewish, Byzantine and vernacular philosophy, and includes entries on the cross-fertilization of these philosophical traditions. A unique feature of this encyclopedia is that it does not aim to define what Renaissance philosophy is, rather simply to cover the philosophy of the period between 1300 and 1650.
Author : Marie Mulvey Roberts,Roy Porter
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2022-10-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000713190
First published in 1993, Literature & Medicine During the Eighteenth Century analyses the close interplay of medicine and literature by paying special attention to questions of body language and the representation of inner life. Although today, medicine and literature are widely seen as falling on different sides of the ‘two cultures’ divide, this was not so in the eighteenth century when doctors, scientists, writers, and artists formed a well-integrated educated elite. Locke, Smollett and Goldsmith were doctors, and physicians such as Erasmus Darwin doubled as poets. Written by leading historians of medicine and eighteenth-century literary critics, this book uncovers the interconnections between medical and psychological theory and ideas of taste, beauty, and genius. Its contributors explore the rich cultural milieu of the period and investigate the ways in which medicine itself contributed to informing a gendered discourse of the world. This book will be of interest to historians, literary scholars and medical historians.
Author : Prudence Allen
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467467780
A comprehensive account of the concept of woman in Western thought, from ancient Greece, through the Middle Ages, to today In her sweeping, three-volume study, Sister Prudence Allen examined how women and men have been defined in relation to one another scientifically, philosophically, and theologically. Now synthesized for students, The Concept of Woman is the ideal textbook for classes on gender in Catholic thought. Allen surveys Greek philosophers, medieval saints, and modern thinkers to trace the development of integral gender complementarity. This doctrine—a living idea according to the criteria of John Henry Newman—affirms the equal dignity of men and women and the synergetic relationship between them. Allen pays special attention to John Paul II’s contributions to this holistic idea of gender. Readers will gain valuable context for current debates over womanhood and come to a greater appreciation of human personhood.
Author : Huxley Thomas Henry
Publisher : Hardpress Publishing
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1318747635
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1312 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015010653791
Author : W.R. Knorr,R. Krohn,Richard P. Whitley
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789400991095
practice, some of which is translated into the standard forms of public discourse, in publication, and then retranslated by readers and adapted again to local practice at self-selected other sites. Less may be left implicit, and additional personal and contextual information is carried, by the "informal" methods of communication which mediate local projects and international publication. But both methods of communication are screens as well as conduits of information. History and Background of the Volume When the planning of this volume began in the spring of 1977, it seemed a natural part of the mandate for the Yearbook. There had also been a number of more specific calls for deeper studies of research in social and historical context (3). These calls can be seen as giving permission and legitimacy to ask questions otherwise seen as irrelevant, or even disrespectful, and as attempts to develop new perspectives from which to ask and to answer them. The implied and expressed irreverence toward traditions and institutions of great respect may have prolonged this process of initial apologetics. In any case, in May 1977 the theme of 'The Social Process of Scientific Investigation' was proposed to the Editorial Board for Volume IV as "the heart of the subject. " That is, the ethnographic and detailed historical study of actual scientific activity and thinking at or close to the work site.
Author : Anita Guerrini
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2015-05-27
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226248332
The Courtiers' Anatomists is about dead bodies and live animals in Louis XIV's Paris--and the surprising links between them. Examining the practice of seventeenth-century anatomy, Anita Guerrini reveals how anatomy and natural history were connected through animal dissection and vivisection. Driven by an insatiable curiosity, Parisian scientists, with the support of the king, dissected hundreds of animals from the royal menageries and the streets of Paris. Guerrini is the first to tell the story of Joseph-Guichard Duverney, who performed violent, riot-inducing dissections of both animal and human bodies before the king at Versailles and in front of hundreds of spectators at the King's Garden in Paris. At the Paris Academy of Sciences, meanwhile, Claude Perrault, with the help of Duverney’s dissections, edited two folios in the 1670s filled with lavish illustrations by court artists of exotic royal animals. Through the stories of Duverney and Perrault, as well as those of Marin Cureau de la Chambre, Jean Pecquet, and Louis Gayant, The Courtiers' Anatomists explores the relationships between empiricism and theory, human and animal, as well as the origins of the natural history museum and the relationship between science and other cultural activities, including art, music, and literature.
Author : Deborah Madden
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781620321270
Inward and Outward Health is the first interdisciplinary scholarly collection to provide an in-depth and new perspective on the medical and scientific activity of one of the eighteenth century's most successful and controversial theological figures, John Wesley. These essays, written by established scholars in the field, convincingly correct a persistent view of Wesley as an irresponsible religious enthusiast who confused medical science and theology. The reader is given here instead a picture of someone who was a crucial admirer of Enlightenment principles: a deeply pious individual who could minister to the physical and spiritual welfare of the poor, applying remedies for the body or prayer for the soul as and when appropriate.