| Title: | Intensity meters : new notes and discoveries on the invention of early modern precision instruments |
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| Authors: | ID Bigotti, Fabrizio (Author) |
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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: | The article sheds light on the invention of early modern precision instruments and
their application in medicine, by analysing a neglected work by one of the Italian
pupils of the physician Santorio Santori (1561–1636). This source provides vital infor-
mation on Santorio’s experimental sample, and on the practical use and dimensions
of instruments such as thermometers, hygrometers, pulsimeters and precision scales,
showing that they also had a normative purpose: regulating the environmental factors
affecting human health. The article first establishes the derivative nature of the source
from Santorio’s teachings, and then contextualises the invention of precision instru-
ments with regard to Santorio’s published and unpublished output. In the conclusions,
I argue that the new instruments were meant to address the shortcomings of the tradi-
tional diagnostic rationale and are best conceptualised as ‘intensity meters’ meant to
assess ‘the magnitude’ (magnitudo) of a patient’s illness in degrees. |
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| Keywords: | intensity, quantification, early modern precision instruments, Giovanni Martino Bonomo, Santorio Santori, galenism, Medical school of Padua |
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| Publication status: | Published |
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| Publication version: | Version of Record |
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| Publication date: | 01.01.2023 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2023 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 597-630 |
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| Numbering: | iss. 6, Vol. 28 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/DiRROS-23858  |
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| UDC: | 930:61(450)"15" |
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| ISSN on article: | 1383-7427 |
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| DOI: | 10.1163/15733823-20230088 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 241883907 |
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| Copyright: | © Fabrizio Bigotti, 2023 | |
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| Publication date in DiRROS: | 13.10.2025 |
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