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" The clock and the mirror : "
Nancy G. Siraisi.
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BL
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632178
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Siraisi, Nancy G.
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The clock and the mirror : : Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine /\ Nancy G. Siraisi.
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Princeton, NJ :: Princeton University Press,, 1997.
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xiv, 361 p. ;; 24 cm.
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0691011893 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780691011899 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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pt. 1. Cardano's Medical World. Ch. 1. Introduction. Ch. 2. Practitioner and Patients -- pt. 2. Theory and Practice. Ch. 3. Argument and Experience. Ch. 4. Time, Body, Food: The Parameters of Health -- pt. 3. The Old and the New. Ch. 5. The Uses of Anatomy. Ch. 6. The New Hippocrates -- pt. 4. Medical Wonders. Ch. 7. The Hidden and the Marvelous. Ch. 8. The Medicine of Dreams -- pt. 5. Medical Narratives. Ch. 9. Historia, Narrative, and Medicine. Ch. 10. The Physician as Patient.
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Girolamo Cardano (1501-1576), renowned as a mathematician, encyclopedist, astrologer, and autobiographer, was by profession a medical practitioner. His copious writings on medicine reflect both the complexity and diversity of the Renaissance medical world and the breadth of his own interests. In this book, Nancy Siraisi draws on selected themes in Cardano's medical writings to explore in detail the relation between medicine and wider areas of Renaissance culture.
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Cardano's medical advice included the suggestion that "the studious man should always have at hand a clock and a mirror"--A clock to keep track of the passage of time and a mirror to observe the changing condition of his body. The remark, which recalls his astrological and autobiographical interests, is emblematic of the many connections between his medicine and his other pursuits. Cardano's philosophical eclecticism, beliefs about occult forces in nature, theories about dreams, and free transactions between academic and popularizing scientific writing also contributed to his medicine.
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Cardano, Girolamo,1501-1576.
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Cardano, Girolamo,1501-1576.
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Medicine-- Italy-- History-- 16th century.
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History, 16th Century.
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History of Medicine.
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Italy, Intellectual life, 1268-1559.
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Italy, Intellectual life, 1559-1789.
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Italy.
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R520.C32S57 1997
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