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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Hiro HiraiPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 17 Dimensions: Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.548kg ISBN: 9789004218710ISBN 10: 9004218718 Pages: 230 Publication Date: 23 December 2011 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock  We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsAcknowledgement by Way of a History Introduction 1. Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy 2. Matter, Life and the Soul 3. The Newly Recovered Texts and Their Interpretations 4. Philosophy in the Manner of Medical Humanists Chapter One Nicolo Leoniceno between the Arabo-Latin Tradition and the Renaissance of the Greek Commentators 1. Introduction 2. Galen: The Vegetative Soul and Innate Heat 3. Aristotle and Pietro d'Abano: Celestial Heat, the Intellect and Soul's Vehicle 4. Alexander of Aphrodisias and Simplicius: The Seed's Inner Nature 5. Averroes and Themistius: Ideas, Intellects and Souls 6. Conclusion Chapter Two Jean Fernel and His Christian Platonic Interpretation of Galen 1. Introduction 2. The Divine Forces of Forms 3. God the Creator and Fetal Formation 4. The Divine and Celestial Nature of the Soul 5. The Notion of Faculty 6. Formative Force and Divine Craftsman in the Seed 7. The Spiritus and Its Innate Heat 8. The Physiological Functions and Their Occult Causes 9. Fernel's Source 10. Conclusion Chapter Three Jacob Schegk on the Plastic Faculty and the Origin of Souls 1. Introduction 2. The Plastic Faculty as the Instrument of God 3. The Plastic Faculty as the Second Actuality 4. Is the Plastic Faculty Corporeal or Incorporeal? 5. The Divine Vehicle of the Plastic Faculty 6. The Separability of the Divine Vehicle 7. Is the Plastic Faculty a Part of the Soul? 8. Conclusion Chapter Four Cornelius Gemma and His Neoplatonic Reading of Hippocrates 1. Introduction 2. Fernel and the Hippocratic Notion of Something Divine 3. Cardano and His Hippocratism 4. Gemma and His Neoplatonic Hippocratism 5. Petrus Severinus and the Parisian Connections? Chapter Five Fortunio Liceti against Marsilio Ficino on the World-Soul and the Origin of Life 1. Introduction 2. Liceti's De Spontaneo Viventium Ortu (1618) 3. The World-Soul in the Junior Platonists 4. The Ideas in the Major Platonists 5. Ficino and the Earth's Soul 6. Cicero's De Natura Deorum as Ficino's Source? Chapter Six Daniel Sennert on Living Atoms, Hylomorphism and Spontaneous Generation 1. Introduction 2. The Origin of Souls in Normal Generation 3. The Eduction of Forms 4. Schegk and the Plastic Force 5. The Nature of the Seed and Its Spiritus 6. Spontaneous Generation in Sennert 7. The Atoms of Living Beings and Their Souls 8. Conclusion Conclusion 1. Natural Philosophy and Medical Humanism 2. Toward a Quest for the Seminal Principle: Sennert and beyond Appendix 1. Jacopo Zabarella, Liber de calore coelesti, in De rebus naturalibus (Frankfurt, 1607), 11. 2. Giovanni Argenterio, De somno et vigilia libri duo (Florence, 1556; Venice, 1592), 2.6. 3. Dominico Bertacchi, De spiritibus libri quatuor (Venice, 1584), 1.8. 4. Fortunio Liceti, De spontaneo viventium ortu (Vicenza, 1618), 3.13. Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationHiro Hirai, Ph.D. (1999) in history of science, University of Lille 3, is a Marie Curie Fellow at Radboud University Nijmegen. He has published widely in early modern natural philosophy, medicine and chemistry, including Le concept de semence dans les theories de la matiere a la Renaissance (2005). He is Vice Editor of Early Science and Medicine. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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