Editors: Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero & Emanuela Scribano (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)

Publisher: Springer, 2022

This book explores the presence of Galen of Pergamon (129 – c. 216 AD) in early modern philosophy, science, and medicine. After a short revival due to the humanistic rediscovery of his works, the influence of the great ancient physician on Western thought seemed to decline rapidly as new discoveries made his anatomy, physiology, and therapeutics more and more obsolete.

In fact, even though Galenism was gradually dismissed as a system, several of his ideas spread through the modern world and left their mark on natural philosophy, rational theology, teleology, physiology, biology, botany, and the philosophy of medicine. Without Galen, none of these modern disciplines would have been the same. Linking Renaissance with the Enlightenment, the eleven chapters of this book offer a unique and detailed survey of both scientific and philosophical Galenisms from the sixteenth to the late eighteenth century.

Contents

Introduction: Philosophical and Medical Galenisms – Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero & Emanuela Scribano

Reading Galen’s De Naturalibus Facultatibus in the Early Modern Period – Guido Giglioni

Galenic Causation in the Theoretical and Practical Medicine of Giambattista Da Monte – Craig Martin

In the Beginning Was the Plant: The Plant-Animal Continuity in the Early Modern Medical Reception of Galen – Fabrizio Baldassarri

Galenic Heritage in Locke’s Medical Philosophy: From Locke’s Medical Remains to His Reflection on Education – Claire Crignon

Galen as a Source for Natural Theology in Early Modern British Philosophy – Brunello Lotti

The Use of Parts: Mechanism Versus Galen – Emanuela Scribano

Divine Organs? Leibniz’s ‘Hymn to Galen’ and the Best of All Possible Bodies – Raphaële Andrault

Christian Wolff’s Mechanization of Galen – Matteo Favaretti Camposampiero

Galen’s Contribution to the History of Materialism – Charles T. Wolfe

Selbstdenken and Eclectic Philosophy: Galen in the Late German Enlightenment – Tinca Prunea-Bretonnet

Source: https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-86308-1