A Word of the Empirics: The Ancient Concept of Observation and its Recovery in Early Modern Medicine.
The genealogy of observation as a philosophical term goes back to the ancient Greek astronomical and medical traditions, and the revival of the concept in the Renaissance also happened in the astronomical and medical context. This essay focuses primarily on the medical genealogy of the concept of ob...
| Publicado en: | Annals of Science Vol. 68; no. 1; pp. 1 - 26 |
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