Studies in the History and Method of Science, vol. 1 (of 2)

Questo figato ha doe parte cio e la parte gibosa e la parte concaua, et ha colligantia cum el core per una certa uena che nasce dal suo gibo e uasene al core, et e chiamata uena...

Diece sono le parte del capo: La prima e li capilli quasi capitis pili facti da la natura a magiore tutela del capo da le cose exteriore et etiam per belleza: La seconda parte d...

Ne la fine del palato tu uederai una carne pendente in modo de uno grano duua: impero si chiama uuula: et e de substantia rara e spongiosa per che fu facta principalmente a rece...

Ultimo e la uirga continuata cum lo collo de la uesica carnoso e e continuata cum esso cum molti ligamenti e corde lequale nascono da losso del petenechio insieme cum certi neru...

La utilita de questo panniculo prima fu acio chel seperasse li membri spirituali da li membri naturali cio e el secondo domicilio dal terzo acio che li fumi leuati da le feze no...

‘In the twentieth burning, six persons: Babelin Goebel, the prettiest girl in Würzburg; a student in the fifth form who knew many languages and was an excellent musician, instru...

Moved by this most creditable and merciful petition (_honestissima et plenissima misericordiae petitione excitatus_), the prior wrote to his friends at Cologne, and the unhappy...

Anstis[223] cites the following entry from the last chapter of the _Constitutions of the Household of Edward II_: ‘Item le Roi doit offrer de certein le jour de grant vendredi a...

Logic, therefore, should regard it as its duty to inquire (1) how the inquirer is furnished with an adequate supply of theories for analysing and testing the apparent facts of h...

The traditional logic, however, cannot treat the matter so lightly. For the plasticity of words may always engender a conflict between the old meaning and the new, between the s...

Wee humbly implore, O merciful God, thy infinit clemency: that as we come to thee with a confident soule, and sincere faith, and a pious assurance of mind: with the like devotio...

Philip Wesselich, a monk of Knechtenstein near Cologne, an honest, simple-minded man, was miserably afflicted by a spirit about the year 1550. Sometimes he was carried up to the...

(_b_) The principles which are said to be _necessary_ or _logical_ ‘_presuppositions_’ all turn out to be hypothetical when they are examined. They are needed, no doubt, to solv...

‘Behold, I saw upon earth men carrying milk in earthen vessels and making cheeses therefrom. Some was of the thick kind from which firm cheese is made, some of the thinner sort...

Lastly, there is the reasoning soul (διανοητικά) or mind (νου̑ς). This is found in man alone, unless there be other beings similar to him, or even nobler than he. Mind alone is...

‘The late king used to bless cramp rings both of gold and silver, which were much esteemed everywhere, and when he was abroad they were often desired from him. The gift he hoped...

§ 7. (1) The first of these may be called the _Fixity of Terms_. Syllogistic reasoning manifestly depends on the assumption that the terms occurring in it have meanings sufficie...

Intimately bound up not only with her theory of the nature and structure of the universe but also with her eschatological beliefs is Hildegard’s doctrine of the elements. Before...

In fact, however, there _is_ a _via media_ between scepticism and absolutism, and science safely pursues it, though logic has overlooked it. It is _not_ necessary to start with...

Those substances on the presence of which in the ovum, as experiment has taught us, the formation of the elementary organs of the embryo or larva depends, are arranged in differ...

During the second half of the fifteenth century, a perfect mania for the study of astrology infected Italy and penetrated equally into the Court, the Church, and the Academy. Th...

A second work, of somewhat similar character, is entitled _Subtilitatum diversarumque creaturarum libri novem_. This is clearly a compilation, and numerous passages in it can be...

[62] Plate XII _a_. The elements are represented in their original order undisturbed by the Fall. Uppermost is the _purus aether_ or _aer lucidus_ containing the stars and repre...

The right ventricle towards the lung has another orifice into which opens the _arterial vein_, bringing the blood from the heart to nourish the lung: in this orifice also are th...

I. Introduction 1 II. Life and Works 2 III. Bibliographical Note 6 IV. The Spurious Scientific Works of Hildegard 12 V. Sources of Hildegard’s Scientific Knowledge 15 VI. The St...

John Uri was a Hungarian who had studied Oriental literature under Schultens at Leyden, and was recommended to Archbishop Secker for the purpose of cataloguing the Bodleian Orie...

There was little or no progress in the knowledge of anatomy between the death of Mondino in 1327 and the sixteenth century. This appears the more remarkable when we recall how w...

[166] _Carpi commentaria cum amplissimis additionibus super anatomia mundini una cum textu eiusdem in pristinum et verum nitorem redacto_, Bologna, 1521. An earlier and less imp...

Now will appear the third ventricle in the posterior part; and it is hard, for it gives rise to the greater part of the motive nerves which are of a strong and firm nature. This...

The main outline of the _Liber Divinorum Operum_ is, we believe, borrowed from the work of Bernard Sylvestris of Tours, _De mundi universitate libri duo sive megacosmus et micro...

Singer, Charles: A Study in Early Renaissance Anatomy, with a new text: the _Anothomia_ of Hieronymo Manfredi (1490), 79-164. ---- The Scientific Views and Visions of Saint Hild...

The text contains numerous foreign and uncommon typographic characters. In addition to Greek, there are passages of Hebrew and Arabic text (which read from right-to-left and are...

Is it not wiser, then, to admit that life has its claims upon science, and science upon logic? We simply _must_ have a science that can handle human life and meet human needs, a...

Hildegard, St. (1098-1180), The Scientific Views and Visions of, 1-55. Biographical details, 2-6, 51-2; bibliographical note, 6-12; canonization, proposals for, 6; correspondenc...

[387] Mr. Alfred Sidgwick has been pointing out for the past twenty years how fatal this difficulty is to the traditional notion of formal validity; nor has any logician confute...