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"La stagione delli frumenti": Due lezioni di Pomponazzi sulla generazione spontanea (2011)

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This edition of Pomponazzi's "Quaestio de genitis ex putri materia" is based on ms. Paris, BnF, lat. 6533. This Quaestio, discussed in 1518, offers a substantially traditional interpretation of the problem of spontaneous generation. However, it also brings to the fore Pomponazzi's awareness of the contradiction between some empirically observable phenomena and the results of mere theoretical reasoning. Even though, in the end, Pomponazzi sided with Latini, his main purpose was to show that Avicenna's hypotesis of man's spontaneous generation was a coniectura, which could neither be proved nor be disproved.

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Authors & Contributors
Martin, Craig
Akopyan, Ovanes
Perrone Compagni, Vittoria
Poncet, Christophe
De Lucca, Jean-Paul
Maria Antonia Rancadore
Concepts
Philosophy
Natural philosophy
Aristotelianism
Science and religion
Anatomy
Humanism
Time Periods
Renaissance
16th century
15th century
17th century
Early modern
Places
Italy
Europe
Toulouse (France)
Florence (Italy)
Spain
France
Institutions
Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden
Università di Bologna
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