On June 20th 1624, at two in the morning, the young student Petrus Balen died. The next
morning, professors and fellow students at Leiden University quickly gathered to dissect his …

This volume presents the papers discussed at a conference entitled “Renaissance Natural
Philosophy and the Disciplines” held at the Dibner Institute for the History of Science and …

A “DEFENSE OF MEDICINE”/VI by Antonio Francesco Ber-tini, professor of medicine,
published at Lucca in 16991 offers an interesting view of conditions at the close of the …

There were only a few traditional visual notations for illness in the late sixteenth century. The
mortally ill patient lay in bcd, gaunt cheekbones and sometimes exposed ribcage testimony …

THE ACADEMIC SEPARATION of the sciences and the humanities makes it difficult to
explore the connection between the various aspects of the human condition, not least in the …

Anatomizing the Past: Physicians and History in Renaissance Culture* Page 1 THE 1999
JOSEPHINE WATERS BENNETT LECTURE Anatomizing the Past: Physicians and History in …

Sheffield, England. James Benignus Winslow, the famous anatomist and author of the
Exposition Anatomique, was born at Odense in Denmark, in I669, but most of his life was …

Historians of the Renaissance still need to question, decipher, and analyze the boundaries
and disciplines of science and medicine for the period from 1400 to 1700. This notion forms …

FEW studies are less rewarding than those which attempt retro spectively to understand the
workings of the mind of a genius. Yet I propose quite briefly to suggest an answer to the …

However much we may smile at the gullibility of Bacon and his mediaeval contemporaries in
this matter of'Dragons', we must remember that as late as 1564, Conrad Gesner, the Swiss …