The scientific revolution and the problem of living being;Révolution scientifique et problématique de l'être vivant

Revue Philosophique de Louvain

Volumn 94, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 568-598

  Duchesneau, François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

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EID: 39649109107     PISSN: 00353841     EISSN: 17831768     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2143/rpl.94.4.541784     Document Type: Review

References (34)

1. Cf. A.R. Hall, The Revolution in Science 1500-1750, London/New York, Longman, 1983, 147: «Would the historian perhaps properly speak of a "negative revolution" in seventeenth-century biology, for example, one which certainly destroyed the ancient basis of confidence without creating an effective "research programme" permitting rapid cumulative development?»
2. R. Westfall, The Construction of Modern Science. Mechanism and Mechanics, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1977, 82
3. F. Duchesneau, La physiologie des Lumières. Empirisme, modèles et théories, La Haye, M. Nijhoff, 1982
4. F. Duchesneau, Genèse de la théorie cellulaire, Paris, Vrin; Montréal, Bellarmin, 1987
5. e siècle, Paris, Payot, 1990, 8
6. Les principaux aspects de la conception du vivant chez Van Helmont font l'objet d'une série assez considérable de citations tirées de l'Ortus medicinae dans l'ouvrage d'A. Pichot, Histoire de la notion de vie, Paris, Gallimard, 1993, 225-290
7. J.B. Van Helmont, Ortus medicinœ, 19-32
8. J.B. Van Helmont, De magnetica vulnerum naturali curatione disputatio contra R.P. Joannem Roberti, Parisiis, Apud Victor Le Roy, 1621
9. Cf. Aristote, De generatione animalium, II, 3, 736b
10. Cf. Nicolaus Cusanus, Idiota, IV. De staticis experimentis (1450), in Opera omnia, Paris, 1514, fol 96r-v
11. J.B. Van Helmont, Complexionum atque mistionum elementalium figmentum, in Ortus medicinœ, 104-111 (cf. W. Pagel, Joan Baptista Van Helmont, 53, n. 63)
12. W. Pagel, Joan Baptista Van Helmont, 72-73
13. J.B. van Helmont, Ortus medicinœ, 178-192
14. Cf. W. Pagel, Joan Baptista Van Helmont, 96: «Individual units - monads - constituted Van Helmont's world»; et passim
15. J.B. Van Helmont, Œuvres, 64a
16. Cf. F. Duchesneau, La physiologie des Lumières, 141-170 et passim
17. Cf. J.B. Van Helmont, Ortus medicinœ, Tractatus de morbis, en particulier De ideis morbosis, 539-547
18. De morbis archealibus, 547-550
19. Ortus imaginis morbosœ, 550-555
20. L.J. Rather, The Genesis of Cancer. A Study in the History of Ideas, Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1978, 118-136
21. Cf. également, W. Pagel, New Light on William Harvey, Basel, S. Karger, 1976
22. W. Harvey, Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, Francofurti, Sumptibus G. Fitzeri, 1628, cap. III, 25
23. Selon W. Pagel, William Harvey's Biological Ideas, 51
24. W. Harvey, De motu cordis, cap. II, 23
25. W. Harvey, De motu cordis, cap. V. Cordis motus actio et functio, 31: «An vero cor sanguini præter transpositionem, et motum localem, et distributionem aliquid aliud addat, sive calorem, sive spiritum, sive perfectionem, posterius inquirendum, et aliis observationibus colligendum: Hoc in præsentia sufficiat satis ostensum esse in pulsu cordis sanguinem transfundi, et deduci e venis in arterias per cordis ventriculos, et distribui in universum corpus»
26. Cf. W. Harvey, Prœlectiones anatomiœ universalis, facsimile edition of Harvey's MS, London, for the Royal College of Physicians, 1886
27. R. French, Harvey's Natural Philosophy, 83-84, y relève les formules suivantes: «vel obsignatis tabulis in aliis Animalibus agere secundum Socratis regulam where it is farer written» et «hinc Socratis regula per similitudinem in a great print»
28. Platon, République, II, 368c-369a
29. Cf. C. Galien, De Hippocratis et Platonis placitis, IX, ii, in Opera omnia (éd. C.G. Kühn), Hildesheim, G. Olms, 1964-1965, V, 720
30. Platon, Phèdre, 270c-271b
31. R. French, William Harvey's Natural Philosophy, 85
32. W. Pagel, William Harvey's Biological ideas, 53-54
33. A. Pichot, Histoire de la notion de vie, 302 suggère que, dans les Exercitationes duœ anatomicœ de circulatione sanguinis ad Joannem Riolanum (1649)
34. Cf. W. Harvey, De motu cordis, cap. VIII, 42: «sed de his convenientius, cum de hujusmodi motus causa finali speculabimur»