| Title: | A previously unknown path to corpuscularism in the Seventeenth century : Santorio’s Marginalia to the Commentaria in Primam Fen Primi Libri Canonis Avicennae (1625) |
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| Authors: | ID Bigotti, Fabrizio (Author) |
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| Files: |  PDF - Presentation file, download (1,73 MB)
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| Language: | English |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: |  ZRS Koper - Science and Research Centre Koper
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| Abstract: | This paper presents some of Santorio’s marginalia to his Commentaria in primam fen primi libri Canonis Avicennae (Venice, 1625), which I identified in the Sloane Collection of the British Library in 2016, as well as the evidence for their authorship. The name of the Venetian physician Santorio Santori (1561–1636) is linked with the introduction of quantification in medicine and with the invention of precision instruments that, displayed for the first time in this work, laid down the foundations for what we today understand as evidence-based medicine. But Santorio’s monumentale opus also contains evidence of many quantified experiments and displays his ideas on mixtures, structure of matter and corpuscles, which are in many cases clarified and completed by the new marginalia. These ideas testify to an early interest in chemistry within the Medical School of Padua which predates both Galileo and Sennert and which has hitherto been unknown. |
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| Keywords: | quantification in medicine, marginalia, corpuscular theory, early modern chemistry |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.01.2017 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2017 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 29-42 |
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| Numbering: | no. 1, Vol. 64 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-23857  |
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| UDC: | 930:61(091)(450)"16" |
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| ISSN on article: | 0002-6980 |
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| DOI: | 10.1080/00026980.2017.1287550 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 241893379 |
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| Copyright: | © 2017 The Author(s). Published by Informa
UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis
Group. |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 13.10.2025 |
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