The Anatomical Renaissance

The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients

Andrew Cunningham (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

304 Seiten

1997
Ashgate Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-85928-338-7 (ISBN)

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The central proposition of this book is that the great anatomists of the Renaissance, from Vesalius to Fabricius and Harvey - the forebears of modern scientific biology and medicine - consciously resurrected not merely the methods but also the research projects of Aristotle and other Ancients. The Moderns' choice of topics and subjects, their aims, and their evaluation of their investigations were all made in a spirit of emulation, not rejection, of their distant predecessors. First published in 1997, Andrew Cunningham’s masterly analysis of the history of the ’scientific renaissance' - a history not of things found, but of projects of enquiry - provoked a reappraisal of the intellectual roots of the Renaissance as well as illuminating debates on the history of the body and its images.

Andrew Cunningham is Senior Research Fellow in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Contents: Introduction; Part One: The Anatomical Renaissance: The Ancients of Anatomy; Between Ancients and Moderns; The Renaissance and anatomy: the first changes; Vesalius: the revival of Galenic anatomy; Columbus: the revival of Alexandrian anatomy; Fabricius: the revival of Aristotelian anatomy; Part Two: The Anatomical Reformation?: The Anatomical Reformation; The Reformation and anatomising: (i) Erasmian reform; (ii) The Lutheran reformation; (iii) The ‘Radical Reformation’; (iv) Counter-Reformation Rome; (v) Reviving Aristotelian anatomy; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	17.4.1997
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften
	Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Anatomie / Neuroanatomie
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-85928-338-1 / 1859283381
ISBN-13	978-1-85928-338-7 / 9781859283387
Zustand	Neuware