The Clock and the Mirror. Girolamo Cardano and the Renaissance Medicine. Von Nancy G. Siraisi.

Ein gutes Exemplar; minimale Gebrauchsspuren. - Englisch. - Nancy Brain (gewidmet). - Gerolamo Cardano, auch Geronimo oder Girolamo Cardano (von Mailand) sowie Cardan, latinisiert Hieronymus Cardanus (Mediolanensis) (* 24. September 1501 in Pavia; � 21. September 1576 in Rom), war ein italienischer Arzt, Philosoph und Mathematiker und z�t zu den Renaissance-Humanisten. . Gerolamo Cardano gilt als einer der letzten gro�n Universalgelehrten der Renaissance mit einer erstaunlichen internationalen Bekanntheit zu Lebzeiten, die zu jener Zeit sonst eher bei prominenten K�nstlern und Literaten zu beobachten war. Die Vielzahl der Wissensbereiche, die er in Form von Vorlesungen und Schriften bearbeitet hat, reicht �ber Medizin, Mathematik, Philosophie, vergleichende Religionswissenschaft, Physik, Chemie, Ingenieurwissenschaften, Pharmazie, Psychologie und Traumdeutung, Astronomie und Astrologie bis zur Architektur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte. . (wiki) // 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 transitions between academic and popularizing scientific writing also contributed to his medicine. As a physician, he greeted two different types of medical innovation m his lifetime with equal enthusiasm: improved access to the Hippocratic corpus and Vesalian anatomy. � (Verlagstext) // INHALT : Preface and Acknowledgments ----- Note to the Reader ----- Abbreviations ----- PART ONE: Cardano's Medical World ----- CHAPTER 1 Introduction ----- CHAPTER 2 Practitioner and Patients ----- PART TWO: Theory and Practice ----- CHAPTER 3 ----- Argument and Experience ----- CHAPTER 4 ----- Time, Body, Food: The Parameters of Health ----- PART THREE: The Old and the New ----- CHAPTER 5 ----- The Uses of Anatomy ----- CHAPTER 6 ----- The New Hippocrates ----- PART FOUR: Medical Wonders ----- CHAPTER 7 ----- The Hidden and the Marvelous ----- CHAPTER 8 ----- The Medicine of Dreams ----- PART FIVE Medical Narratives ----- CHAPTER 9 ----- Historia, Narrative, and Medicine ----- (u.a.) ISBN 0691011893