par Moreau, Elisabeth 
Référence Renaissance Society of America - RSA Annual Meeting (31/03–02/04/2016: Boston, MA (USA))
Publication Non publié, 2016
Référence Renaissance Society of America - RSA Annual Meeting (31/03–02/04/2016: Boston, MA (USA))
Publication Non publié, 2016
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | The pseudo-Paracelsian treatise Philosophia ad Athenienses (1564) was widely commented by late Renaissance Paracelsians and accused of impiety by adversaries such as Thomas Erastus and Andreas Libavius. This cosmological work described the emergence of the universe from an uncreated prime matter or “great mystery” (mysterium magnum), chymically prepared and separated by God during Creation. The present paper addresses the reception of this pseudo-Paracelsian treatise by Danish physician Peder Sørensen or Petrus Severinus (1540–1602) and German physician Daniel Sennert (1572–1637). I will focus on the notions of prime matter and element in relation to the medical theory expounded in Severinus’ Idea medicinae philosophicae (1571) and Sennert’s De chymicorum cum Aristotelicis et Galenicis consensu ac dissensu (1633). This analysis will shed light on their divergent attitudes toward the four elements and qualities as basic components of the human body. |
