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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Rochester, NY :
University of Rochester Press,
2001.
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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.