Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi
Author: Roger Bacon
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 646
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Author: Roger Bacon
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Published: 1937
Total Pages: 646
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 488
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Published: 1909
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Roger Bacon
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 590
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Published: 1909
Total Pages: 382
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Published: 1909
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Published: 1928
Total Pages: 692
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Published: 2005
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 9780608325279
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Meagan S. Allen
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-01-01
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 3031128982
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon’s (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was writing. Though twelfth-century Latin alchemy had largely been concerned with transmuting base metals into noble ones, Bacon believed that the natural principles taught in alchemy would be better used in medicine. In an age where many physicians were theorizing about ways to prevent the effects of aging, Bacon held that combining alchemy and humoral medicine would allow one to extend their life by decades, even centuries. By examining Bacon’s alchemical, medical, and mathematical works, this book argues that Bacon combined a number of sources to create a unique plan for prolonging human life. His understanding of disease and aging was ultimately Galenic in nature, and his understanding of how pharmaceuticals work can be traced back to his mathematical theories, especially that of the multiplication of species. The book provides a new system for organizing Bacon’s alchemically-produced medicines, and explains what Bacon saw as the difference between each, and how they could have different physiological effects. Bacon is situated within the thirteenth-century contexts in which he was writing – that of the university-educated and newly professionalized medical practitioners, who were invested in finding ways to extend human life; and the Franciscan order, with their understanding of the innate goodness of the physical body, the resurrection, and corporeal union with God. Filling a major lacuna in scholarship on the history of medieval medical writings, this book provides vital reading for historians of medicine, pre- and early modern European science, and medieval philosophy and religion.
Author: A. C. Crombie
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 1990-07-01
Total Pages: 533
ISBN-13: 0826431623
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author sees the history of Western Science as the history of a vision and an argument, initiated by the ancient Greeks in their search for principles at once of nature and of argument itself. This scientific vision explored and controlled by argument, and the diversification of both vision and argument by scientific experience and by interaction with the wider contexts of intellectual culture, constitute the long history of European scientific thought. Underlying that development have been specific commitments to conceptions of nature and of science and its intellectual and moral assumptions, accompanied by a recurrent critique; their diversification has generated a series of different styles of scientific thinking and of making theoretical and practical decisions which the work describes.