Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism by Fabrizio ... - 9781350325180

Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance AristotelianismNatural Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century\nAuthor(s): Fabrizio Baldassarri, Craig Martin\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Academic\nISBN-13: 9781350325180, 978-1350325180\nSynopsis\nShedding new light on the understudied Italian Renaissance scholar, Andrea Cesalpino, and the diverse fields he wrote on, this volume covers the multiple traditions that characterize his complex natural philosophy and medical theories, taking in epistemology, demonology, mineralogy, and botany.\n\n By moving beyond the established influence of Aristotles texts on his work, Andrea Cesalpino and Renaissance Aristotelianism reflects the rich influences of Platonism, alchemy, Galenism, and Hippocratic ideas. Cesalpinos relation to the new sciences of the 16th century are traced through his direct influences, on cosmology, botany, and medicine. In combining Cesalpinos reception of these traditions alo.