Naslov
Knowledge Production in Canones de medicina solidorum (1707) by Georgius Baglivi

Autori
Blažević, Zrinka

Izvornik
Radovi (Zavod za hrvatsku povijest) (0353-295X) 53 (2021), 1; 67-79

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u časopisima, članak, znanstveni

Ključne riječi
(entangled) history of knowledge, Georgius Baglivi, Canones de medicina solidorum (1707)

Sažetak
Starting from the presumption that early modern medical knowledge is marked by manifold interconnectedness and interdependencies of heterogeneous scientific paradigms, this paper is aimed at scrutinizing epistemic structure of the work Canones de medicina solidorum (1707) written by Georgius Baglivi (1668– 1707), Italian physician of Ragusan origin. Strongly influenced by Galileian physics, Baglivi conceptualised and propagated fibrilarism, a “middle path” between humoral and solidist medicine, which explained all physiological and pathological processes by the living properties of fibres. By examining explicit metatheoretical claims in the Canones de medicina solidorum, it will be demonstrated how Baglivi combined theories of the ancient medical authorities such as Hippocrates and Caelius Aurelianus with medical approaches of his predecessors: Santorio Santorio (1561–1636), William Harvey (1578 – 1657) and Louis Duret (1527 –1629). By combining theoretical presumptions of history of knowledge with the interpretative models of entangled history, it will be argued that early modern medical knowledge was not generated in the linear manner, through successive paradigm shifts, but in the more complex processes of transtemporal entanglements of various intellectual traditions.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Povijest

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