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The clock and the mirror Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine

Nancy G Siraisi

Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press 1997

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Title:
The clock and the mirror Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine
Author: Nancy G Siraisi
Subjects: Cardano, Girolamo 1501-1576; Cardano, Girolamo 1501-1576 -- Et les sciences de la santé; Cardano, Girolamo 1501-1576 -- Philosophie; Cardano, Girolamo 1501-1576 -- Contributions in medicine; Cardano, Girolamo 1501-1576 -- Philosophy; Cardano, Gerolamo (1501-1576); Cardano, Geronimo; Medicine -- Italy -- History -- 16th century; MEDICINA (HISTÓRIA); HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA; RENASCIMENTO; History, 16th Century -- Italy; History of Medicine -- Italy; Médecins -- Italie -- Histoire -- 16e siècle; Medizin; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1268-1559; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 1559-1789; Italie -- Vie intellectuelle -- 16e siècle; Italy -- Intellectual life -- 16th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Description: Pt. 1. Cardano's Medical World. Ch. 1. Introduction. Ch. 2. Practitioner and Patients -- Pt. 2. Theory and Practice. Ch. 3. Argument and Experience. Ch. 4. Time, Body, Food: The Parameters of Health -- Pt. 3. The Old and the New. Ch. 5. The Uses of Anatomy. Ch. 6. The New Hippocrates -- Pt. 4. Medical Wonders. Ch. 7. The Hidden and the Marvelous. Ch. 8. The Medicine of Dreams -- Pt. 5. Medical Narratives. Ch. 9. Historia, Narrative, and Medicine. Ch. 10. The Physician as Patient
Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance culture
Cardano's medical advice included the suggestion that "the studious man should always have at hand a clock and a mirror" - a clock to keep track of the passage of time and a mirror to observe the changing condition of his body. The remark, which recalls his astrological and autobiographical interests, is emblematic of the many connections between his medicine and his other pursuits. Cardano's philosophical eclecticism, beliefs about occult forces in nature, theories about dreams, and free transactions between academic and popularizing scientific writing also contributed to his medicine
Publisher: Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press
Creation Date: 1997
Format: xiv, 361 p 24 cm.
Language: English

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Nancy G Siraisi

Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press 1997

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