Flesh in the Age of ReasonPenguin UK, 2005/01/27 - 592 ページ 'As an introduction to early modern thinking and the impact of past ideas on present lives, this book can find few equals and no superiors. Porter is a witty, humane writer with an extraordinary vocabulary and a sparkling sense of fun. Whether he is quoting from obscure medical texts or analysing scabrous diaries, dishing the dirt on long-dead bigwigs or evoking sympathy for human suffering, his grasp is masterly and his erudition appealing. I wish I could read it again for the first time: you can.' Times Educational Supplement, Book of the Week |
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... origins of epilepsy and other convulsive disorders. Impressed by the mechanical philosophy, Willis rejected not just scholasticism's 'substantial forms' but Paracelsus's 'archeus' doctrine as well. Determining what was unique about ...
... origin of the corporeal soul? Willis held that a 'heap' of subtle atoms or animal spirits – a 'little animal soul, not yet kindled' – lay in the seminal fluid. When, through sexual intercourse, this 'heap' found a suitable berth, a soul ...
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SCIENCE RESCUES THE SPIRIT | |
JOHN LOCKE REWRITES THE SOUL | |
THE POLITE SELF IN THE POLITE BODY | |
NIGHTMARE SELVES 10 JOHNSON AND INCORPORATED MINDS 11 EDWARD GIBBON FAME AND MORTALITY | |