Author: Roger BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : la
Pages : 646
Book Description
Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi
Author: Roger BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : la
Pages : 646
Book Description
Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi
Author: Roger BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : la
Pages : 488
Book Description
Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi
Author: Roger BaconPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608324708
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Opera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi...
Author: Roger BaconOpera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi
Author: Roger BaconOpera hactenus inedita Rogeri Baconi
Author: Roger BaconOpera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi
Author: Roger BaconPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : la
Pages : 692
Book Description
Opera Hactenus Inedita Rogeri Baconi
Author: Roger BaconPublisher:
ISBN: 9780608325279
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
Roger Bacon and the Incorruptible Human, 1220-1292
Author: Meagan S. AllenPublisher: Springer Nature
ISBN: 3031128982
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon’s (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was writing. Though twelfth-century Latin alchemy had largely been concerned with transmuting base metals into noble ones, Bacon believed that the natural principles taught in alchemy would be better used in medicine. In an age where many physicians were theorizing about ways to prevent the effects of aging, Bacon held that combining alchemy and humoral medicine would allow one to extend their life by decades, even centuries. By examining Bacon’s alchemical, medical, and mathematical works, this book argues that Bacon combined a number of sources to create a unique plan for prolonging human life. His understanding of disease and aging was ultimately Galenic in nature, and his understanding of how pharmaceuticals work can be traced back to his mathematical theories, especially that of the multiplication of species. The book provides a new system for organizing Bacon’s alchemically-produced medicines, and explains what Bacon saw as the difference between each, and how they could have different physiological effects. Bacon is situated within the thirteenth-century contexts in which he was writing – that of the university-educated and newly professionalized medical practitioners, who were invested in finding ways to extend human life; and the Franciscan order, with their understanding of the innate goodness of the physical body, the resurrection, and corporeal union with God. Filling a major lacuna in scholarship on the history of medieval medical writings, this book provides vital reading for historians of medicine, pre- and early modern European science, and medieval philosophy and religion.
On Light
Author: K.P. ClarkePublisher: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature
ISBN: 0907570291
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
The essays assembled in this new volume explore the fascination of the Middle Ages with the mystery of light, and its central role in the period's thought and creativity. Spanning medieval theology, literature, science and material culture, the topics covered include the history of light (and, inseparably, darkness) as a literary figure, from the Latin Bible to Geoffrey Chaucer; theoretical speculations on colour, sight and blindness, and their unexpected fertilization of fields such as poetic imagery; medieval preachers' evocations of light as much more than merely figuring the moral and religious, from St. Simeon in the ninth century to John Fisher in the early sixteenth; indeed the belief that light possessed not only reality but physical materality, as manifested in artefacts such as the Gloucester Candlestick. On Light thereby reveals not only the importance of this phenomenon to diverse aspects of medieval culture, but profound and unremarked ways in which it helped to bind these into a whole.