Some Current Trends in the Study of Renaissance Medicine
The following brief reflections on the present state of scholarship in Renaissance medicine make no claim to provide a comprehensive overview of the field. Medicine is of broad historical interest because a web of connections link it to the culture as a whole. Variously considered, medicine has a place in the history of science and technology, in social history, and in a wide sweep of cultural and intellectual history ranging from the history of philosophy to the study of popular mentalités. Moreover, although the field of the history of Renaissance medicine is one in which much, including fundamental work, remains to be done, it is also one that is now being vigorously developed in some widely diverse ways. Confronted with this breadth of topics and materials, I am seeking only to isolate a few major directions in current work
A History of Balance, 1250–1375. The Emergence of a New Model of Equilibrium and Its Impact on Thought Giovanni Ceccarelli (Parma)
Introduction 1. Equality and equalization in the economic sphere, part I: the scholastic discourse on usury to 1300 2. Equality and equalization in the economic sphere, part II: the scholastic discourse on price and value to 1300 3. Balance in medieval medical theory, part I: the legacy of Galen 4. Balance in medieval medical theory, part II: the scholastic reception and refinement of Galenic balance to ca. 1315 5. Evolving models of equalization in medieval political thought, ca. 1250-1325 6. The new model of equilibrium in medieval political thought, part I: the Defensor Pacis of Marsilius of Padua 7. The new model of equilibrium in medieval political thought, part II: the writings of Nicole Oresme 8. The new model of equilibrium in scholastic natural philosophy, ca. 1325-1375 Conclusion Bibliography.
Mathematical Time and Physical Time in the Theory Of Relativity
In the Theory of Relativity time is an imaginary quantity that can not be observed; it is a multiplication of a number that indicates duration of material change and number i that is an imaginary number. i on the square is -1. Time i⁄t is a mathematical time that describes the speed and the duration of material change. In the Universe one can observe physical time only as a stream of material change. It is not that change run in physical time, change itself is physical time.. Distinction between imaginary mathematical time and visible physical time opens some new perspectives into interpretation of Theory of Relativity. c