G. A. LINDEBOOM (editor), The letters of Jan Swammerdam to Melchisedec Thevenot, Amsterdam, Swets & Zeitlinger, 1975, pp. x, 190, illus., D.F1.80.00. The contributions of the Dutchman Swammerdam (1637-1680), to experimental medicine have been consistently underrated, partly because of his shyness and reticence, partly because his short life ended in religious fanaticism, and partly because his ...

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In the middle ages when every craft had its gild with an elaborate organization and code of conduct, medicine was singularly lacking in any such control and its members lacked a corporate spirit or feeling of group consciousness. Moreover physicians had no control except that which the universities provided as part of their training. In this respect medicine was unlike tihe Church and the legal...

The consensus view in philosophy of science is that reductionism is dead. One reason for this is that the deductive nomological (DN) model of explanation, on which classical reductionism depends, is widely regarded as indefensible. I argue that the DN model is inessential to the reductionist framework, and that mechanism provides a better framework for thinking about reductionism. But this runs...

male medical writers deplored quacks, empirics and popular ignorance, but she could also write in her persona as a woman of the ignorance of male medical expertise. Perkins, who is an expert on French literature, has integrated into her account recent work of social historians on medicine: on the medical market place, on patient-doctor relations, especially between women and medical practitione...

[3] D. J. Bryden. A didactic introduction to arithmetic, sir charles cotterell's 'instrument for arithmeticke' of 1667. " Note, this book contains a flawed conclusion as to the priority of the invention of the sliderule. See [9]. [9] Florian Cajori. On the history of gunter's scale and the slide rule during the seventeenth century.

ing from time and place” (Books 10.250). Although the rules of punctuation are not settled in the seventeenth century, his description of the representation of size here echoes his description of the representation of shape at 4.4.6 of the Essay, and there he emphatically