Overview
- Provides new evidence about the ancient sources of early modern philosophy
- Spans three centuries of philosophy and science, from Renaissance to the late Enlightenment
- Links the history of philosophy with the history of medicine
Part of the book series: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées (ARCH, volume 236)
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Table of contents (11 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. 216 AD) in early modern philosophy, science, and medicine. After a short revival due to the humanistic rediscovery of his works, the influence of the great ancient physician on Western thought seemed to decline rapidly as new discoveries made his anatomy, physiology, and therapeutics more and more obsolete. In fact, even though Galenism was gradually dismissed as a system, several of his ideas spread through the modern world and left their mark on natural philosophy, rational theology, teleology, physiology, biology, botany, and the philosophy of medicine. Without Galen, none of these modern disciplines would have been the same. Linking Renaissance with the Enlightenment, the eleven chapters of this book offer a unique and detailed survey of both scientific and philosophical Galenisms from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century. Figures discussed include Julius Caesar Scaliger, Giambattista Da Monte, Hyeronimus Fabricius ab Aquapendente, Andrea Cesalpino, Thomas Browne, Kenelm Digby, Henry More, Ralph Cudworth, Robert Boyle, John Locke, Guillaume Lamy, Jean-Baptiste Verduc, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Christian Wolff, Julien Offray de La Mettrie, Denis Diderot, and Kurt Sprengel.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero is Associate Professor at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. His research focuses on early modern philosophy from Descartes to Kant with a special interest in metaphysics, logic, rational theology, the philosophy of biology and medicine, the mind-body problem, and the theories of knowledge, language, and modalities. His publications include two books, Filum cogitandi: Leibniz e la conoscenza simbolica (Milan 2007) and Conoscenza simbolica: Pensiero e linguaggio in Christian Wolff e nella prima età moderna (Hildesheim 2009), five co-edited volumes, and several articles and book chapters on Leibniz, Wolff, their sources, and their influence.
Emanuela Scribano is Professor Emeritus of the History of Philosophy at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Her main research interests are in the history of early modern philosophy. She has published widely on early modern metaphysics, epistemology, rational theology, and philosophy of science, with a focus on Descartes and Spinoza. She has recently investigated the relation between metaphysics and physiology in Cartesian thought. Her publications include L’existence de Dieu. Histoire de la preuve ontologique de Descartes à Kant (Seuil, 2002); Macchine con la mente. Fisiologia e metafisica tra Cartesio e Spinoza (Carocci 2015); A Reading Guide to Descartes’ Meditations on First Philosophy (St. Augustine’s Press, 2016); Anges et bienheureux (Vrin, 2021).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Galen and the Early Moderns
Editors: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero, Emanuela Scribano
Series Title: International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-86308-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86307-4Published: 08 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-86310-4Published: 09 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-86308-1Published: 07 March 2022
Series ISSN: 0066-6610
Series E-ISSN: 2215-0307
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 215
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Philosophy, History of Medicine