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Joan Baptista Van Helmont: Reformer of Science and Medicine
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Joan Baptista Van Helmont: Reformer of Science and Medicine Hardcover - 1982

by Walter Pagel


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Only comparatively recently have historians begun to recognize the importance and influence of Joan Baptista Van Helmont (1579-1644) in the history of medicine and chemistry. Van Helmont's theories on the nature of life, biological time, physiology and disease, the structure of matter, and the processes of chemical change are veiled in his writings by a brand of Renaissance mysticism. His organic conception of the natural world, together with his belief in alchemy and astral forces, has resulted in a predominantly unsympathetic attitude among historians of science, by whom he is generally regarded as purveying an unpalatable and inherently 'un-scientific' amalgam of medicine and philosophy. Dr Pagel now demonstrates that by painstaking analysis it is possible to appreciate the creative insights of a figure like Van Helmont. His book is a model of its kind, and is the culmination of many years of reflection on the topics discussed.

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  • Title Joan Baptista Van Helmont: Reformer of Science and Medicine
  • Author Walter Pagel
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 229
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
  • Date 1982
  • ISBN 9780521248075 / 0521248078
  • Weight 1.15 lbs (0.52 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.98 x 5.98 x 0.79 in (22.81 x 15.19 x 2.01 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Medicine - History - 17th century, Medicine - Biography
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 81024193
  • Dewey Decimal Code B
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Joan Baptista van Helmont : reformer of science and medicine / Walter Pagel

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by Pagel, Walter (1898-1983)

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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 219 pp.: illustrations ; 24 cm. Subjects; Helmont, Jean Baptiste van 1577-1644. Physicians Belgium ; Biography. Medicine History 17th century. Science.
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