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In Elements, Principles and Particles, Antonio Clericuzio explores the relationships between chemistry and corpuscular philosophy in the age of the Scientific Revolution. Science historians have regarded chemistry and corpuscular philosophy as two distinct traditions. Clericuzio's view is that since the beginning of the 17th century atomism and chemistry were strictly connected. This is attested by Daniel Sennert and by many hitherto little-known French and English natural philosophers. They often combined a corpuscular theory of matter with Paracelsian chemical (and medical) doctrines. Boyle plays a central part in the present book: Clericuzio redefines Boyle's chemical views, by showing that Boyle did not subordinate chemistry to the principles of mechanical philosophy. When Boyle explained chemical phenomena, he had recourse to corpuscles endowed with chemical, not mechanical, properties. The combination of chemistry and corpuscular philosophy was adopted by a number of chemists active in the last decades of the 17th century, both in England and on the Continent. Using a large number of primary sources, the author challenges the standard view of the corpuscular theory of matter as identical with the mechanical philosophy. He points out that different versions of the corpuscular philosophy flourished in the 17th century. Most of them were not based on the mechanical theory, i.e. on the view that matter is inert and has only mechanical properties. Throughout the 17th century, active principles, as well as chemical properties, are attributed to corpuscles. Given its broad coverage, the book is a significant contribution to both history of science and history of philosophy.

Chemistry --- Matter --- Chimie --- Matière --- History --- Constitution --- Histoire --- Structure --- -Matter --- -094:54 --- Atoms --- Dynamics --- Gravitation --- Physics --- Substance (Philosophy) --- Physical sciences --- -Constitution --- -History --- -Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Chemistry. Mineralogical sciences --- 094:54 Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Chemistry. Mineralogical sciences --- Oude en merkwaardige drukken. Kostbare en zeldzame boeken. Preciosa en rariora-:-Chemistry. Mineralogical sciences --- Matière --- 094:54 --- Europe --- 17th century --- Constitution (nature) --- Chemistry - Europe - History - 17th century. --- Matter - Constitution - History - 17th century. --- Chemistry. --- History. --- Modern philosophy. --- Philosophy. --- Medicine—History. --- Chemistry/Food Science, general. --- History, general. --- Modern Philosophy. --- History of Philosophy. --- History of Medicine. --- Mental philosophy --- Humanities --- Modern philosophy --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Boyle, Robert

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Atomisme --- Chimie --- Histoire --- Atomisme --- Chimie --- Histoire --- 16e-17e siecles

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This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It will be of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories.

Mechanism (Philosophy). --- Mechanistic philosophy --- Philosophy, Mechanistic --- Biology --- Life (Biology) --- Materialism --- Naturalism --- Philosophy --- Science --- Vitalism --- Medicine --- History of Philosophy. --- History of Science. --- History of Medicine. --- History. --- Health Workforce --- Mechanism (Philosophy)

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This volume emphasizes the diversity and fruitfulness of early modern mechanism as a program, as a concept, as a model. Mechanistic study of the living body but also of the mind and mental processes are examined in careful historical focus, dealing with figures ranging from the first-rank (Bacon, Descartes, Spinoza, Cudworth, Gassendi, Locke, Leibniz, Kant) to less well-known individuals (Scaliger, Martini) or prominent natural philosophers who have been neglected in recent years (Willis, Steno, etc.). The volume moves from early modern medicine and physiology to late Enlightenment and even early 19th-century psychology, always maintaining a conceptual focus. It is a contribution to a newly active field in the history and philosophy of early modern life science. It will be of interest to scholars studying the history of medicine and the development of mechanistic theories.

History of philosophy --- Pure sciences. Natural sciences (general) --- History of human medicine --- wetenschapsgeschiedenis --- filosofie --- geneeskunde --- geschiedenis

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Difficile à lire, connu de réputation pour ses objections aux Méditations de Descartes, sa réhabilitation d’Épicure et des atomes, voire le caractère ambigu de ses relations avec les “libertins”, Pierre Gassendi est un personnage un peu flou dans notre galerie de portraits imaginaire. Il fut cependant un auteur important, lu, connu, approuvé ou critiqué dans toute l’Europe, surtout par les savants qui voulaient fonder efficacement leur physique moderne sans renier pour autant les acquis des anciens. Les études réunies ici ont cherché comme la trace et le reflet de l’œuvre de Gassendi dans les écrits d’autres auteurs qui ont vécu de son temps et jusqu’à la fin des Lumières – non seulement en France –, mais aussi en Angleterre (comme Walter Charleton, John Locke, David Hume ou Robert Boyle), en Hollande (professeurs d’Université), en Allemagne (Leibniz), en Pologne (Sociniens et “libertins”), en Italie du Nord (comme le jésuite milanais Thommaso Ceva), en Italie du Sud (comme le fondateur de l’Accademia degli Investiganti Tommaso Cornelio ou Giambattista Vico), en Espagne enfin (comme le médecin Martínez). Aujourd’hui encore Gassendi fait des adeptes parmi ceux que séduisent les chemins non battus de l’effort gratuit et de l’érudition austère, ceux que ravit absolument une certaine esthétique baroque de l’esprit pur.

History & Philosophy Of Science --- Medieval & Renaissance Studies --- Renaissance --- philosophie