Jean Fernel's On the hidden causes of things : : forms, souls, and occult diseases in Renaissance medicine / / with an edition and translation of Fernel's De abditis rerum causis by John M. Forrester ; introduction and annotations by John Henry & John M. Forrester.

An annotated translation of Jean Fernel's On the Hidden Causes of Things (1542), with a scholarly introduction showing its great importance in the intellectual history of the Renaissance. The only sixteenth-century writer, apart from Paracelsus, to develop a new theory of disease, Fernel was al...

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Superior document:Medieval and early modern science ; v. 6
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Year of Publication:2005
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:History of science and medicine library. Medieval and early modern science ; v. 6.
Physical Description:1 online resource (791 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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