Academic Theories of Generation in the Renaissance The Contemporaries and Successors of Jean Fernel (1497-1558) /

• Main Author: Deer Richardson, Linda (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Goldberg, Benjamin (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: History, Philosophy and Theory of the Life Sciences, 22
• Subjects: Medicine-History.; Medicine-Philosophy.; Medical education.; History of Medicine.; Philosophy of Medicine.; Medical Education.

This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two different traditions: one, deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and specifically from his Generation of Animals; and another, deriving from two related medical traditions, the Hippocratic...