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The mechanization of the heart : Harvey and Descartes /

In Mechanization of the Heart: Harvey and Descartes Thomas Fuchs discusses the similarities and differences of the views of the two seventeenth-century scholars William Harvey and Rene Descartes on the beart and circulationof the blood; Fuch traces the reception of the two views in the medical liter...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fuchs, Thomas, 1958-
Otros Autores: Grene, Marjorie, 1910-2009
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2001.
Colección:Rochester studies in medical history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Havery and Descartes
  • The Galenic paradigm and its crisis
  • The vital aspect of the circulation: William Harvey
  • The mechanical aspect of the circulation: Descartes and his followers
  • Vitalism and mechanism between 1700 and 1850
  • A look ahead.