Book ID: CBB273767138

The World of Worm: Physician, Professor, Antiquarian, and Collector, 1588-1654 (2022)

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Grell, Ole Peter (Author)


Routledge


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 293
Language: English

This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Worm’s collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, resulting in Worm’s rationale for his research being largely overlooked. Worm shared his many interests with a number of other physicians of the age, but in terms of breadth, few matched the variety of his concerns. For a man who considered himself first and foremost a physician and anatomist, his interests in Paracelsianism and collecting can at times be baffling, while his interests in antiquarianism, runes, and chronology strike the modern reader as at odds with his medical and natural philosophical interests. It is important to comprehend that Worm’s multi-faceted interests in the created world were underpinned by his Lutheran, Melanchthonian natural philosophy, and this served to unify all Worm’s scholarly undertakings, inquiries, and experiments in the single aim of reaching a better understanding of God’s creation, the Book of Nature.

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Authors & Contributors
Lisbet Tarp
Andersen, Peter
Cei, Angelo
Bartolini, Donatella
Tongiorgi, Paolo
Tomasi, Lucia Tongiorgio
Concepts
Natural philosophy
Natural history
Biographies
Medicine
Physicians; doctors
Botany
Time Periods
17th century
16th century
18th century
Early modern
Renaissance
19th century
Places
Italy
Europe
Denmark
England
Spain
Venice (Italy)
Institutions
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei (Rome)
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