The clock and the mirror : Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine / Nancy G. Siraisi.
The clock and the mirror : Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine / Nancy G. Siraisi.
The clock and the mirror : Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine / Nancy G. Siraisi.
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.
Date
1997.
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N610.92/C266/2
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English
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xiv, 361 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Pt. 1. Cardano's Medical World. Ch. 1. Introduction. Ch. 2. Practitioner and Patients -- Pt. 2. Theory and Practice. Ch. 3. Argument and Experience. Ch. 4. Time, Body, Food: The Parameters of Health -- Pt. 3. The Old and the New. Ch. 5. The Uses of Anatomy. Ch. 6. The New Hippocrates -- Pt. 4. Medic...
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Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 1997.
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New Jersey
Date Published
1997.
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Cardano's medical advice included the suggestion that "the studious man should always have at hand a clock and a mirror" - a clock to keep track of the passage of time and a mirror to observe the changing condition of his body. The remark, which recalls his astrological and autobiographical interests, is emblematic of the many connections between h...
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The clock and the mirror : Girolamo Cardano and Renaissance medicine / Nancy G. Siraisi.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N610.92/C266/2
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74VvP45bMAmb
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0691011893 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780691011899 (cloth : alk. paper)
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610.92
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991005704029702626
