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Darrera modificació: 2017-05-31
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Findlen, Paula, "The Death of a Naturalist: Knowledge and Community in Late Renaissance Italy", dins: Manning, Gideon - Klestinec, Cynthia (eds.), Professors, Physicians and Practices in the History of Medicine: Essays in Honor of Nancy Siraisi, Berlín, Springer, 2017, pp. 127-167.
- Resum
- In the spring of 1556 the sixteenth-century community of scholars engaged with natural history, one of the most exciting and rapidly evolving sciences of the century, lost one of its most important and beloved members. On May 4th of that year Luca Ghini (ca. 1490–1556), who had been the first physician to teach medicinal simples at the University of Bologna, died, leaving behind a widow and young children (Fig. 7.1). News of his death was not entirely unexpected since Ghini had been ailing for several months. They mourned the man and they commiserated with his family. Most importantly, they wondered how they could possibly replace this living repository of all the important and hard-won botanical knowledge. Ghini played a singularly authoritative role in establishing the significance of botany to sixteenth-century medicine. His death marked a turning point for this communitycareer, and his contacts in the European medical world. An account is given of the bibliographical resources available to him, before the contents themselves are anatomised. His interest in various fields is revealed here: medieval practical medicine, medical humanism, anatomy, Hippocratism, medical observationes and letter collections, gynecology, astrological medicine, balneology, botany, and the literature of medical secrets. Martius's eclecticism and open-mindedness is revealed further through a comparison of his library with five other contemporary book collections of doctors.
- Matèries
- Història de la medicina
Biografia
Història de la ciència
Humanisme
Medicina - Farmacologia
- Notes
- Número monogràfic de la revista Archimedes, 50 (2017).
- URL
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319 ...
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