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...

Table of Contents:

• Rewriting Walter Charleton: Physick and Natural Philosophy
• ’The Alembic of Our Pen’: Charleton’s Identity as a Physician
• ’The Animal Oeconomy’: Natural History (1659) in the Context of English Physiology
• ’The Republick of Letters’: Charleton’s Identity in the Royal Society & College of Physicians
• Enquiries Into Human Nature (1680): Charleton’s Anatomy and Physiology After the Royal Society
• Three Anatomic Lectures (1683): Ways of Knowing and the Anatomical Body
• Conclusions.