par Moreau, Elisabeth 
Référence Isaac Beeckman in Context: Science, the Arts, and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic (27-28 September 2018: University College Roosevelt, Middelburg (The Netherlands))
Publication Non publié, 2018-09-27
Référence Isaac Beeckman in Context: Science, the Arts, and Culture in the Early Dutch Republic (27-28 September 2018: University College Roosevelt, Middelburg (The Netherlands))
Publication Non publié, 2018-09-27
Communication à un colloque
| Résumé : | Though he obtained a medical degree at the University of Caen (France) in 1618, Isaac Beeckman never practiced medicine. Still, he developed throughout his diary a medical theory with which he amalgamated his atomistic views. For his careful review of Galen’s work, Beeckman was particularly interested in the study of the functioning of the living body, also called “physiology”. In early medicine, this branch was founded on the Galenic notion of temperament as a balanced proportion of elements and qualities, defining the state of health. The present paper aims to explore Beeckman’s interpretation of temperament (temperies) as a mixture of atomic elements leading to the formation of “homogeneous” parts. First, I will examine his reception of late Renaissance novatores like French physician Jean Fernel (c.1497–1558), Italian physician Giovanni Argenterio (1513–1572) and German physician and alchemist Andreas Libavius (c.1550–1616). Second, I will consider Beeckman’s appraisal of medical and alchemical concepts related to the temperament, such as the total substance, “occult” qualities, and quintessence. |
