Add to ORKGInnate heat is a long-established concept from Galenic medicine, defined as a subtle body proper to living beings. Associated with spirit, it forms a vital substance, as an instrument of the soul to animate the body and operate the physiological functions. Such Galenic notion was challenged by the Paracelsian concepts of balsam and vital Sulfur: a fertile “matter,” responsible for the conservation and the propagation of seeds. This paper examines the controversial argument against the Paracelsian dismissal of innate heat by German chymist Andreas Libau or Libavius (ca. 1555–1616) in his Examen philosophiae novae (Frankfurt, 1615). In addition to Libavius’s strive for a chymical compromise with the Galenic tradition, it will focus on his pol...
[16], 149, [5], 28 p.Errata: p. [15].Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library
The works of Theophrast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, are based on a way of thinking, which he...
The present paper is centered on the role of Galenic physiology in the emergence of early modern mat...
Innate heat is a fundamental concept in Galenic medicine, referring to a physiological heat proper t...
The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiat...
Sixteenth-century natural philosophers and physicians crafted novel ideas on bodies and their intern...
In this account of the pan that heat plays in the conception and development of living substances ac...
In Renaissance medicine, the vegetative soul was a central concept for the explanation of generation...
In his treatise On the Elements According to Hippocrates, Galen synthesized the Hippocratic doctrine...
In the history of early modern science, the German physician Andreas Libavius (Halle, Saxony, c.1550...
In this paper we are translating and discussing one of the scientific treatises written by Robert Gr...
The term ‘heat’ originates from the Old English word hǣtu, a word of Germanic origin; related to the...
The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiat...
none1noBetween the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, alchemy reached its full maturity in the We...
By Aileen R Das Associated and sometimes identified with the life-giving (or vital) principle, heat ...
[16], 149, [5], 28 p.Errata: p. [15].Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library
The works of Theophrast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, are based on a way of thinking, which he...
The present paper is centered on the role of Galenic physiology in the emergence of early modern mat...
Innate heat is a fundamental concept in Galenic medicine, referring to a physiological heat proper t...
The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiat...
Sixteenth-century natural philosophers and physicians crafted novel ideas on bodies and their intern...
In this account of the pan that heat plays in the conception and development of living substances ac...
In Renaissance medicine, the vegetative soul was a central concept for the explanation of generation...
In his treatise On the Elements According to Hippocrates, Galen synthesized the Hippocratic doctrine...
In the history of early modern science, the German physician Andreas Libavius (Halle, Saxony, c.1550...
In this paper we are translating and discussing one of the scientific treatises written by Robert Gr...
The term ‘heat’ originates from the Old English word hǣtu, a word of Germanic origin; related to the...
The chair of chymiatria created at the University of Marburg was among the earliest academic initiat...
none1noBetween the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries, alchemy reached its full maturity in the We...
By Aileen R Das Associated and sometimes identified with the life-giving (or vital) principle, heat ...
[16], 149, [5], 28 p.Errata: p. [15].Reproduction of original in the Cambridge University Library
The works of Theophrast von Hohenheim, known as Paracelsus, are based on a way of thinking, which he...
The present paper is centered on the role of Galenic physiology in the emergence of early modern mat...