The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654

Ole Peter Grell (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

274 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-27011-1 (ISBN)

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This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm’s collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, resulting in Worm’s rationale for his research being largely overlooked. Worm shared his many interests with a number of other physicians of the age, but in terms of breadth, few matched the variety of his concerns. For a man who considered himself first and foremost a physician and anatomist, his interests in Paracelsianism and collecting can at times be baffling, while his interests in antiquarianism, runes, and chronology strike the modern reader as at odds with his medical and natural philosophical interests. It is important to comprehend that Worm’s multi-faceted interests in the created world were underpinned by his Lutheran, Melanchthonian natural philosophy, and this served to unify all Worm’s scholarly undertakings, inquiries, and experiments in the single aim of reaching a better understanding of God’s creation, the Book of Nature.

Ole Peter Grell is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the Open University, UK.

Introduction / The Physician / The Professor / The Antiquarian / The Collector

Erscheinungsdatum	03.05.2022
Reihe/Serie	The History of Medicine in Context
Zusatzinfo	1 Halftones, color; 30 Halftones, black and white; 1 Illustrations, color; 30 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	453 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-032-27011-X / 103227011X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-27011-1 / 9781032270111
Zustand	Neuware