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Wissenschaftliche Revolution und Embryologie: Ablehnung oder Transformation der Antike? Ein Vergleich zwischen den Zeugungslehren Cesare Cremoninis, William Harveys und René Descartes (2014)

Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Volume: 98
Issue: 1
Pages: 1-27
Publication date: 2014
Language: German

URI: https://biblioscout.net/article/10.25162/sudhoff-2014-0001

DOI: 10.25162/sudhoff-2014-0001

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Medicine Methodology of science; scientific method Aristotelianism Embryology 17th century Galen Descartes, René Harvey, William Cremonini, Cesare

In this paper I address the issue of the theoretical and epistemological status of embryology at the rise of the so-called „Scientific Revolution“ (also in the first half of the seventeenth-century) and raise the question, in what sense and to what extent the historiographical concept of „Scientific Revolution“ is applicable to the domain of embryology. To achieve this aim I compare the theories of three protagonists of the medical, scientific and philosophical debate of that age, namely Cesare Cremonini, William Harvey and René Descartes, who had very different views on the world structure and human nature and a very different concept of science, but who shared, as concerns embryological issues, an epigenetic conception of the development of the embryo. Their theories are discussed and compared in light of following questions: 1) What do Cremonini’s, Harvey’s and Descartes’s embryological theories exactly aim to?; 2) In developing their theories, do these thinkers deal explicitly or implicitly with the Aristotelian and the Galenic embryological paradigm?; 3)Do they refer polemically to the Aristotelian and the Galenic tradition and what theoretical and/or rhetorical function have these polemical references?; 4) Do the embryological theories of Cremonini, Harvey and Descartes reflect the century-long dispute between „(Aristotelian) philosophers“ and „(Galenic) doctors“?; 5) How is represented embryology as a ‚scientific‘ and/or ‚theoretical‘ domain? And what relationship between concepts of ‚truth‘, ‚research‘, ‚tradition‘ and ‚scientific progress‘ is implied or proposed in the embryological works of these three thinkers? What kind of use do Cremonini, Harvey and Descartes make of the argumenta ex ratione and of those ex experientia?

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