New Light on William Harvey

Walter Pagel

Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 1976 - Biography & Autobiography - 189 pages

'This book is clearly an essential one-not only for the Harvey specialist, but also for all students of the Scientific Revolution.'

Contents

• General Introduction: 1
• Formative years: 8
• Attempts at settling down Reasons for frustration: 14
• The second set of journeys: 22
• Johannes Oporinus and his pen portrait of Paracelsus: 29
• Paracelsus as a figure of the Renaissance and Humanism: 35
• Paracelsus and popular criticism of Doctor and Patient in the PreReformation: 44
• The Philosophy of Paracelsus: 50
• 1: 64
• Paracelsus conception of Time: 72
• 3: 74
• General: 82
• Earth and Water as Mothers Their offspring: 95
• 13: 97
• The MacroMicrocosm theory in conflict with the concept of specificity The astral: 104
• 15: 112
• Life soul spirit astral body and air: 117
• Medicine: 126
• 17: 134
• Aetiology: 140
• 40: 141
• 59: 148
• Disease and the Stars The Animal in man and Lunacy The Psychiatry: 150
• 72: 152
• Special Pathological Theories: 153
• 2388ངོཨཽཎྜ ཎྜ: 161
• 104: 167
• Progressive aspects of Paracelsus in Medicine and their limitations: 200
• Paracelsus and Neoplatonism The influence of Marsilio Ficino Ficinos ideal of: 218
• The Prime Matter of Paracelsus as foreshadowed by the philosophy of Salomo: 227
• Giordano Bruno: 232
• The Microcosmic Pattern as reflected by the Womb and the Earth Leonicenus: 238
• Paracelsus and Arnald of Villanova: 248
• Paracelsus and Alchemy: 258
• Paracelsus achievement in pure and medical Chemistry: 273
• Paracelsus and Nicolaus Cusanus: 279
• Pomponazzi and Paracelsus: 289
• Agrippa of Nettesheyms Occult Philosophy: 295
• Middle XVIth Century opposition to Galen Johannes Argenterius and Paulus: 301
• Erastus Censure of Paracelsus: 311
• Daniel Sennerts Critical Defence of Paracelsus: 333
• Final Assessment: 344
• Addenda and Errata: 351
• Collation of loci quoted from Huser with the standard edition of Sudhoff: 375

Bibliographic information

• Title: New Light on William Harvey
• Author: Walter Pagel
• Edition: illustrated
• Publisher: Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers, 1976
• ISBN: 3805522096, 9783805522090
• Length: 189 pages
• Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Literary