Cabanis. Enlightenment and medical philosophy in the French Revolution
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incredible diversity of explanatory systems (some heuristic, others theoretic) dauntingly facing the young medical thinker or natural philosopher in the mid-eighteenth century. Thus Hutton opted for belief in five chemical principles (for Hutton principles were ad hoc labellings rather than ultimate constituents of Nature): salt, water, sulfur, earth, and air. It was as good a classification as any of the many other listings available. It is possible that certain of Hutton's later traits of reasoning are already present in the dissertation. The dissertation operates within a highly explicit natural theological framework, in which the functions and final causes of the varied kinds of chemical principle are as important as their material and efficient causes (thus Hutton was already concerned with the role of air in the cycle of plant life, though of course unlike later he was not yet working within a phlogiston chemistry). And the very use of the concept of microcosm indicates that for Hutton throughout his career considerations of order and harmony were constitutive for his natural philosophy. This excellent edition will undoubtedly spark studies of the debt owed by the mature sage to Young Man Hutton. Roy Porter Wellcome Institute
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medical History
دوره 25 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1981