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Hiro Hirai - Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy, Inbunden

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Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy

Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the Soul

Av Hiro Hirai

Del 17 i serien Medieval and Early Modern Philosophy and Science

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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.
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Hiro 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 théories de la matière à la Renaissance (2005). He is Vice Editor of Early Science and Medicine.

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"[T]he author’s attention to rare sources and varied views of the past contributes to a wider understanding of early modern scientific culture that abandons oversimplifications about revolutions carried out by a few great geniuses." - Pietro Daniel Omodeo, in: Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 65, No. 3 (Fall 2012), pp. 913-915"Hirai […] scrutinizes a relatively unexplored field of research, i.e. the impact of humanistic culture on the evolution of natural philosophy, focusing in particular on sixteenth and seventeenth-century exponents of so-called ‘learned medicine’. […] Hiro Hirai’s work stands out for stimulating new insights and is of great interest for future research." - Leen Spruit, Università degli Studi «La Sapienza», Roma, in: Bruniana & Campanelliana, Vol.2 (2012), pp. 655-656

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