SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY EXPERIMENTA, MAGISTERIAL FORMULAE AND THE 'ANIMAL ALKAHEST': NEW DOCUMENTS FOUND IN ROYAL SOCIETY ARCHIVES

被引：1

作者：

Maria Alfonso-Goldfarb, Ana ^{[1
,2
]}

Mendes Ferraz, Marcia Helena ^{[1
,2
]}

Rattansi, Piyo M. ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Pontifical Catholic Univ Sao Paulo, Grad Program Hist Sci, CESIMA Ctr Simao Mathias Studies Hist Sci, BR-01333000 Sao Paulo, SP, Brazil

[2] UCL, Dept Sci & Technol Studies, London WC1E 6BT, England

来源：

NOTES AND RECORDS-THE ROYAL SOCIETY JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE | 2015年 / 69卷 / 04期

基金：

巴西圣保罗研究基金会;

关键词：

magisterial formulae; 'animal alkahest'; experimenta; Helmont; Oldenburg; Dubois;

D O I：

10.1098/rsnr.2014.0067

中图分类号：

N09 [自然科学史]; B [哲学、宗教];

学科分类号：

01 ; 0101 ; 010108 ; 060207 ; 060305 ; 0712 ;

摘要：

In this paper we present three newly rediscovered documents from the Royal Society archives that, together with the four described in our previous publications, constitute a set on a cognate theme. The documents were written by, or addressed to, members of the early Royal Society, and their subject is several magisterial formulae, including J. B. van Helmont's alkahest and Ludus. In addition to the interest in those formulae as medicines for various grave illnesses, our analysis showed that some seventeenth-century scholars sought to explain operations of the animal body by invoking similar but natural substances, while attempting to assimilate the latest anatomical discoveries into a novel framework. The complete set of documents sheds some new light on the interests of seventeenth-century networks of scholars concerned with experimenta.

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页码：395 / 418

页数：24