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.
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This volume provides an engaging series of studies that set Andrea Cesalpinos philosophical and medical writings within the context of sixteenth-century thought. They show that his allegiance to Aristotelian assumptions did not prevent him from pursuing new lines of enquiry and coming to different solutions. * David Lines, Professor of Renaissance Philosophy and Intellectual History, University of Warwick, UK * Philosopher and physician, botanist and naturalist, Andrea Cesalpino engaged in many of the most contentious natural philosophical debates of the sixteenth century. The contributors to this volume unravel his complex strands of thought, draw connections within and across his works, and reveal Cesalpinos centrality to early modern intellectual history. * Hannah Marcus, John and Ruth Hazel Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University, USA *
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Highlights an understudied figure of the Italian Renaissance, Andrea Cesalpino, and his rich approach to natural philosophy in the 17th century.
Andrea Cesalpino. An Introduction, Fabrizio Baldassarri (University of
Venice, Italy) and Craig Martin (University of Venice, Italy)
Part I. Philosophy
1. Andrea Cesalpinos Epistemology, Marco Sgarbi (Ca Foscari, Venice,
Italy)
2. Philosophy, Medicine and Humanism in Cesalpinos Investigation into
Demons, Craig Martin (University of Venice, Italy)
3. Plato and Andrea Cesalpinos 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. Cesalpinos (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. Cesalpinos Mineralogy between Meteorology and Chymistry, Hiro Hirai
(Columbia University, USA)
Part III. Medicine
10. Anatomy and Practice: Andrea Cesalpinos 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. Cesalpinos Theory of Disease between Galenism and Renaissance
Neoplatonism: De morbo gallico in Context, Carmen Schmechel (Freie University
of Berlin, Germany)
Index
Fabrizio Baldassarri is Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow at Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
Craig Martin is Associate Professor of History of Science and Technology at Ca Foscari University of Venice, Italy.
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