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Darrera modificació: 2022-08-12
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat, Arnau
Bigotti, Fabrizio, "Gradus Dimetiri: intensity and classification of complexions in 14th-century Italian medicine", Annals of Science, 80 (2022).
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- This paper focuses on the scholastic approach to the intensity of complexions and presents some evidence as to how the meaning of complexio evolved in fourteenth-century Italian medicine: namely, how it was conceptualized, visualized, and finally quantified. In the first part, I summarize the philosophical development of complexio, pointing out how the concept differs from simple mixtures, thereby allowing for the mathematisation of compounds and their intensity. I then move on to consider the links between medicine and mathematics and present the schemes provided by Gentile Gentili da Foligno (1280/90 - 1348) as a case study, analysing their philosophical premises and implications for medical treatment more generally. In the final part, I argue that, quite aside from representing early forms of the mathematisation of qualities, schemata and diagrams also captured the medieval ideal of the cosmos, a hierarchical progression of forms ordered in ascending degrees of perfection and nobility.
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- URL
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790.2022.2107702
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