Article ID: CBB001321168

Approaches to the Critical Days in Late Medieval and Renaissance Thinkers (2013)

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Galen's astrological doctrine of the critical days, as found in his De diebus decretoriis (iCritical Days), Book III, was at the center of a long discussion in the Latin West about the relationship between astrology and medicine. The main problem was that Galen's views could not be made to square with the prevailing cosmology, which derived both from Aristotle and Abü Ma'shar. The views of selected Latin thinkers concerning the critical days, from Pietro d'Abano, down through Girolamo Cardano, are considered in the context of a fourfold scheme that aims to classify the main approaches to the criti-cal days. The criticisms of Pico della Mirandola are discussed, as well as two kinds of responses to him: the progressive views of Giovanni Mainardi and Girolamo Fracastoro, as well as the conservative views of Thomas Bodier and Girolamo Cardano

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Authors & Contributors
Rutkin, H. Darrell
Licata, Marta
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Gurashi, Dario
Gorini, Ilaria
Schiavone, Valeria
Concepts
Astrology
Medical astrology
Medicine
Latin language
Hermeticism
Linguistics; philology
Time Periods
Renaissance
Medieval
16th century
Early modern
15th century
Ancient
Places
Europe
Italy
Milan (Italy)
Spain
Greece
France
Institutions
Bologna. Università
Université de Montpellier
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