Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism
Natural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in the Aristotelian Tradition;
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 29 May 2025
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350325180
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages pages
- Size 232x154x14 mm
- Weight 400 g
- Language English 666
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Long description:
Shedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany.
By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotle's texts on his work, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas. Cesalpino's relation to the new sciences of the 16th century are traced through his direct influences, on cosmology, botany, and medicine. In combining Cesalpino's reception of these traditions alongside his connections to early modern science, this book provides a vital case study of Renaissance Aristotelianism.
Table of Contents:
Andrea Cesalpino. An Introduction, Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of Venice, Italy) and Craig Martin (University of Venice, Italy)
Part I. Philosophy
1. Andrea Cesalpino's Epistemology, Marco Sgarbi (Ca' Foscari, Venice, Italy)
2. Philosophy, Medicine and Humanism in Cesalpino's Investigation into Demons, Craig Martin (University of Venice, Italy)
3. Plato and Andrea Cesalpino's Aristotelianism: A Revealing Marginality, Eva del Soldato (University of Pennsylvania, USA)
4. Cesalpino on Sensitive Powers and the Question of Divine Immanence, Andreas Blank (Klagenfurt University, Austria)
5. Andrea Cesalpino and the Rejection of the Celestial Spheres in Seventeenth-Century University of Edinburgh, David McOmish (Ca' Foscari Venice, Italy)
Part II. Natural Philosophy
6. Cesalpino's (Aristotelian) Philosophy of Plants: A Science of Botany in the Renaissance, Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of Venice, Italy)
7. Aristotelian Metaphysics of the Vegetative Soul and Early Modern Plant Physiology: Comparison between Plant Functions in Aristotle, Pseudo-Aristotle, and Cesalpino, Corentin Tresnie and Quentin Hiernaux (both FNRS University of Brussels, Belgium)
8. Paratextual Debates in De plantis (1583): On the best Form of Botanical Prose, Garden and Things, and the Author-Figure of Cesalpino, Julia Heideklang (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany)
9. Cesalpino's Mineralogy between Meteorology and Chymistry, Hiro Hirai (Columbia University, USA)
Part III. Medicine
10. Anatomy and Practice: Andrea Cesalpino's Praxis universae artis medicae, R. Allen Shotwell (Ivy Tech Community College, USA)
11. Simple and Compound Drugs in Late Renaissance Medicine: The Pharmacology of Andrea Cesalpino (1593), Elisabeth Moreau (Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium)
12. Cesalpino's Theory of Disease between Galenism and Renaissance Neoplatonism: De morbo gallico in Context, Carmen Schmechel (Freie University of Berlin, Germany)
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