Jean Fernel's on the Hidden Causes of Things: Forms, Souls, and Occult Diseases in Renaissance Medicine

by John Henry

An annotated translation of Jean Fernel's On the Hidden Causes of Things (1542), with a scholarly introduction showing its great importance in the intellectual history of the Renaissance. The only sixteenth-century writer, apart from Paracelsus, to develop a new theory of disease, Fernel was also a leading natural philosopher. His survey of the role of occult qualities and powers in life processes, especially generation, and in contagious and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004141286
• ISBN13: 9789004141285
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 792 Pages
• Weight: 3.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 2.1" x 6.5" x 9.6"