Treccani History of Science
The Scientific Revolution
F3 – The domains of knowledge (part 2)
Edited by Curtis Wilson, Renato Mazzolini
Earth sciences
• 1. Inorganic world and Aristotelianism
• 2. Fossils
• 3. The terrestrial body and the question of fountains
• 4. Cartography and geography
Psychology and pneumatology
• 1. From psychology to pneumatology.
• 2. Passions: natural o praeternatural?
• 3. The psychology of vision.
Astrology
• 1. The statute of astrology.
• 2. Planetary influences.
• 3. Judicial astrology.
• 4. Astrology and new scientific discoveries.
Collections and scientific voyages
• 1. Collections and reports
• 2. The Dutch contribution to scientific travel
• 3. The contribution of the missionaries
• 4. Travel in Europe
Zoology and botany
• 1. Description, anatomy and classification of animals and plants
• 2. The triumph of anatomy and comparative organography in animal and plant science
The new worlds of microscopy
• 1. The microscope
• 2. The discovery of microworlds
Anatomy
• 1. Animated anatomy
• 2. ‘Artificial and subtle’ anatomy
• 3. The vascular and lymphatic system
• 4. The adenological discoveries
• 5. Other anatomical discoveries
Harvey and the circulation of the blood
• 1. The education and the London College of Physicians
• 2. Lumleian lectures
• 3. De motu cordis
The origins of neurophysiology
• 1. The classical, medieval and Renaissance tradition
• 2. Cartesian neurophysiology
• 3. Research on the nervous system in the second half of the seventeenth century
Theories of generation
• 1. Science and philosophy in the controversy over animal generation
• 2. Francesco Redi
• 3. The ovist theory
• 4. Animalculism
• 5. Epigenesis versus preformism
Medicine
• 1. Introduction.
• 2. The debate between Galenic and chemical medicine.
• 3. Disease concepts and their classification.
• 4. Pathology.
• 5. Therapeutic and surgical techniques.
• 6. Iatrophysics and iatrochemistry.