A Subtle and Mysterious Machine The Medical World of Walter Charleston (1619–1707) /

• Main Author: Gaukroger, S. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Booth, Emily (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2005.
• Series: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science, 18
• Subjects: Philosophy.; History.; Epistemology.; Medicine > Philosophy.; Medicine > History.; Philosophy, general.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Medicine.; History of Medicine.

Walter Charleton (1619-1707) has been widely depicted as a natural philosopher whose intellectual career mirrored the intellectual ferment of the ‘scientific revolution’. Instead of viewing him as a barometer of intellectual change, I examine the previously unexplored question of his identity as a p...