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Jean Fernel's On the Hidden Causes of Things : Forms, Souls, and Occult Diseases in Renaissance Medicine.
An annotated translation of Jean Fernel's On the Hidden Causes of Things (1542). A major innovatory work in Renaissance natural philosophy and medicine, and a crucially important source for understanding the notion of occult qualities, with a scholarly introduction.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Leiden :
BRILL,
2004.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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- Acknowledgements; Introduction; Jean Fernel and the Importance of his De abditis rerum causis; On the Transcript and the Translation; De abditis rerum causis: a Synopsis; De abditis rerum causis; Preface; Liber primus/book I; Chapter 1. The elements of the world provide the only matter for each thing that is brought into being; Chapter 2. The form of a natural thing is substance, not accident; Chapter 3. The substance of the form of every natural body is simple, and has not arisen from the forms of the substrate, contrary to Alexander's position.
- Chapter 4. The forms of the individual parts that are in a composite are as it were preparations for the introduction of a form of the whole, and they are multipleChapter 5. It is not the potentiality of a natural thing to proceed to a form through its own initiative; but just as an actuality is summoned from a disposition, a form is summoned from the potential; Chapter 6. There was not the smallest contribution previously in matter towards the generati.