The Medical World Of Margaret Cavendish

Author : Justin Begley,Benjamin Goldberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783030929275

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The Medical World of Margaret Cavendish by Justin Begley,Benjamin Goldberg Pdf

This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation of medical recipes and letters, which is held in the University of Nottingham. Collected by the Marquess and Marchioness of Newcastle, William and Margaret Cavendish, during the 1640s and 1650s, this manuscript features letters of advice, recipes, and sundry philosophical and medical reflections by some of the most formidable and influential physicians, philosophers, and courtly scholars of the early seventeenth century. These include “Europe’s physician” Theodore de Mayerne, the adventurer and courtier Kenelm Digby, and the natural philosopher, poet, and playwright Margaret Cavendish. While the transcription and accompanying annotations will allow a diverse array of readers to appreciate the manuscript for the first time, the introduction situates the Cavendishes’ recipe collecting habits, medical preoccupations, natural philosophical views, and politics within their social, cultural, and philosophical contexts, and draws out some of the most significant implications of this important document.

Author : Emily Booth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402033780

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A Subtle and Mysterious Machine by Emily Booth Pdf

Walter Charleton is an intriguing character—he flits through the diaries of Pepys and Evelyn, the correspondence of Margaret Cavendish, and his texts appear in the libraries of better-known contemporaries. We catch sight of him 1 conversing with Pepys about teeth, arguing with Inigo Jones about the origin of 2 Stonehenge, being lampooned in contemporary satire, stealing from the Royal Society, and embarrassing himself in anatomical procedures. While extremely active in a broad range of Royal Society investigations, his main discovery there seems to have been that tadpoles turned into frogs. As a practising physician of limited means, Walter Charleton was reliant for his living upon patrons and his medical practice—in addition he had the m- fortune to live in an era of dramatic political change, and consequently of unpredictable fortune. His achievements were known on the Continent. Despite his embarrassments in Royal Society anatomical investigation he was offered the prestigious chair of anatomy at the University of Padua. He turned down this extraordinary opportunity, only to die destitute in his native country a couple of decades later. The lugubrious doctor is without doubt an enigma. Charleton’s Anglicanism and staunch Royalism were unwavering throughout his career. The latter caused difficulties for him when he attempted to gain membership of the College of Physicians during the interregnum. His religious views were a source of concern when he was offered the position at Padua.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2020-10-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798552099122

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The Blazing World Illustrated by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

The Blazing World, is a 1666 work of prose fiction by the English writer Margaret Cavendish, the Duchess of Newcastle. Feminist critic Dale Spender calls it a forerunner of science fiction. It can also be read as a utopian work

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 984 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015070245025

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The Medical World by Anonim Pdf

Author : J.V.C. Smith
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 694 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382330279

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The Medical World by J.V.C. Smith Pdf

Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780141904825

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The Blazing World and Other Writings by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

Flamboyant, theatrical and ambitious, Margaret Cavendish was one of the seventeenth century's most striking figures: a woman who ventured into the male spheres of politics, science, philosophy and literature. The Blazing World is a highly original work: part Utopian fiction, part feminist text, it tells of a lady shipwrecked on the Blazing World where she is made Empress and uses her power to ensure that it is free of war, religious division and unfair sexual discrimination. This volume also includes The Contract, a romance in which love and law work harmoniously together, and Assaulted and Pursued Chastity, which explores the power and freedom a woman can achieve in the disguise of a man.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2000-01-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 155111173X

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Paper Bodies by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

Margaret Cavendish was one of the most subversive and entertaining writers of the seventeenth century. She invented new genres, challenged gender roles, and critiqued the new science as well as the mores of society. “Paper Bodies” was the wonderful phrase she used to described her manuscripts, which she hoped would continue to make “a great Blazing Light” after her death. There are connections here to Cavendish’s most famous work, The Description of a New World, Called the Blazing World (1666), a unique tale of a woman travelling through the north pole to a strange new world. In addition to The Blazing World, this volume includes Cavendish’s brief autobiography, A True Relation of My Birth, Breeding and Life (1667), her play The Convent of Pleasure, and selections from her Sociable Letters, her poetry, and her critical writings. A variety of background documents by other seventeenth-century writers helps to set her work in context for the modern reader.

Author : Margaret Cavendish
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781460406878

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Grounds of Natural Philosophy by Margaret Cavendish Pdf

This edition aims to make Margaret Cavendish’s most mature philosophical work more accessible to students and scholars of the period. Grounds of Natural Philosophy is important not only because it is Cavendish’s final articulation of her metaphysics but also because it succinctly outlines her fundamental views on “the nature of nature”—or the base substance and mechanics of all natural matter—and vividly demonstrates her probabilistic approach to philosophical enquiry. Moreover, Grounds spends considerable time discussing the human body, including the functions of the mind, a topic of growing interest to both historians of philosophy and literary scholars. This Broadview Edition opens to modern readers a vibrant, unique, and provocative voice of the past that challenges our standard view of seventeenth-century English philosophy.

Author : Emily Thomas
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107178687

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Early Modern Women on Metaphysics by Emily Thomas Pdf

Investigates early modern women philosophers' views on reality, matter, time and mind, uncovering neglected perspectives and demonstrating their historical importance.

Author : Deborah A. Boyle,Deborah Boyle
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190234805

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The Well-ordered Universe by Deborah A. Boyle,Deborah Boyle Pdf

Order and regularities -- Cavendish's atomism -- Vitalist materialism and infinite nature -- Creatures -- Human nature and the desire for fame -- Peace and order in human societies -- Gender roles and the role of nature -- Humans and the natural world -- Health and order in the human body

Author : Anna Battigelli
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813183855

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Margaret Cavendish and the Exiles of the Mind by Anna Battigelli Pdf

Margaret Cavendish, duchess of Newcastle (1623-1673), led a dramatic life that brought her into contact with kings, queens, and the leading thinkers of her day. The English civil wars forced her into exile, accompanying Queen Henrietta Maria and her court to Paris. From this vantage point, she began writing voluminously, responding to the events and major intellectual movements of the mid-seventeenth century. Cavendish published twenty-three volumes in her lifetime, including plays, romances, poetry, letters, biography, and natural philosophy. In them she explored the political, scientific, and philosophical ideas of her day. While previous biographers of Cavendish have focused almost exclusively on her eccentric public behavior, Anna Battigelli is the first to explore in depth her intellectual life. She dismisses the myth of Cavendish as an isolated and lonely thinker, arguing that the role of exile was a rhetorical stance, one that allowed Cavendish to address and even criticize her world. She, like others writing during the period after the English civil wars, focused squarely on the problem of finding the proper relationship between mind and world. This volume presents Cavendish's writing self, the self she treasured above all others.

Author : Nadine Akkerman,Pete Langman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300267549

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Spycraft by Nadine Akkerman,Pete Langman Pdf

A fascinating exploration of the devious tricks and ingenious tools used by early modern spies--from ciphers to counterfeiting, invisible inks to assassination Early modern Europe was a hotbed of espionage, where spies, spy-catchers, and conspirators pitted their wits against each other in deadly games of hide and seek. Theirs was a dangerous trade--only those who mastered the latest techniques would survive. In this engaging, accessible account, Nadine Akkerman and Pete Langman explore the methods spies actually used in the period, including disguises, invisible inks, and even poisons. Drawing on a vast array of archival sources, they show how understanding the tricks and tools of espionage allows us to re-imagine well-known stories such as the Babington and Gunpowder plots. Exposing the murky world of spies, they demonstrate how the technological innovations of petty criminals, secretaries, and other hitherto invisible actors shaped the fate of some of history's most iconic figures. Spycraft explains how early modern spies sought to protect their own secrets while exposing those of their enemies, showing the reader how to follow in their footsteps.

Author : Brandie R. Siegfried,Lisa T. Sarasohn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317126720

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God and Nature in the Thought of Margaret Cavendish by Brandie R. Siegfried,Lisa T. Sarasohn Pdf

Only recently have scholars begun to note Margaret Cavendish’s references to 'God,' 'spirits,' and the 'rational soul,' and little has been published in this regard. This volume addresses that scarcity by taking up the theological threads woven into Cavendish’s ideas about nature, matter, magic, governance, and social relations, with special attention given to Cavendish’s literary and philosophical works. Reflecting the lively state of Cavendish studies, God and Nature in the Thought of Margaret Cavendish allows for disagreements among the contributing authors, whose readings of Cavendish sometimes vary in significant ways; and it encourages further exploration of the theological elements evident in her literary and philosophical works. Despite the diversity of thought developed here, several significant points of convergence establish a foundation for future work on Cavendish’s vision of nature, philosophy, and God. The chapters collected here enhance our understanding of the intriguing-and sometimes brilliant-contributions Cavendish made to debates about God’s place in the scientific cosmos.

Author : Heather Meek
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2023-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780228019800

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Reimagining Illness by Heather Meek Pdf

In eighteenth-century Britain the worlds of literature and medicine were closely intertwined, and a diverse group of people participated in the circulation of medical knowledge. In this pre-professionalized milieu, several women writers made important contributions by describing a range of common yet often devastating illnesses. In Reimagining Illness Heather Meek reads works by six major eighteenth-century women writers – Jane Barker, Anne Finch, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Hester Lynch Thrale Piozzi, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Frances Burney – alongside contemporaneous medical texts to explore conditions such as hysteria, melancholy, smallpox, maternity, consumption, and breast cancer. In novels, poems, letters, and journals, these writers drew on their learning and literary skill as they engaged with and revised male-dominated medical discourse. Their works provide insight into the experience of suffering and interrogate accepted theories of women’s bodies and minds. In ways relevant both then and now, these women demonstrate how illness might be at once a bodily condition and a malleable construct full of ideological meaning and imaginative possibility. Reimagining Illness offers a new account of the vital period in medico-literary history between 1660 and 1815, revealing how the works of women writers not only represented the medicine of their time but also contributed meaningfully to its developments.

Author : Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780190664053

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Margaret Cavendish by Margaret Cavendish Duchess of Newcastle Pdf

Introduction -- Worlds Olio -- Philosophical and physical opinion -- Philosophical letters -- Observations upon experimental philosophy -- Grounds of natural philosophy -- Poems and fancies -- Fiction -- List of suggested secondary readings.