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Presentation the Medical School of Padua from its beginnings, especially shaping the interconnections and contexts that grounded the medical revolution of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Particular attention is devoted to highly-significant moments in the story of Padua, namely Vesalius and Harvey. Yet, in this chapter, I put such moments in their context, revealing how much the medical revolutions developed out of an interconnection of studies. First, we have decided to delineate some of the crucial cultural characteristics of Padua. We believe, for instance, that the pre-humanistic movement which born already in the 13th century might be fundamental for understanding the following development of the University. Then, we have focused our attention on two of the most famous figures of the Padua medical school, namely Andreas Vesalius and Hieronymus Fabricius ab Acquapendente. About Vesalius, we have tried to highlight his humanistic culture, perfectly in line with Padua environment, and his revolution based on a new conception of anatomy as the queen of natural sciences. About Fabricius, we have highlighted his new philosophical approach in anatomical studies, based on the study of Aristotle, as well as his new use of anatomical illustrations, giving also a brief description of how his achievements were fundamental for William Harevey’s discovery of blood circulation. With that latter discovery, we might support that ancient science definitively declined, opening the way to modern medicine based on the anatomo-physiology of man for understanding and curing human disease.
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- Giovanni Silvano, Vittoria Feola. Foreword
- Notes on contributors
- Fabrizio Baldassarri, Fabio Zampieri. Scientiae in the History of Medicine: an Introduction
- Fabio Zampieri. The University of Padua Medical School from the Origins to the Early Modern Time: A Historical Overview
- Cynthia Klestinec. The Anatomy Theater: Towards a Performative History
- Florike Egmond. Sixteenth-Century University Gardens in a Medical and Botanical Context
- Alberto Zanatta. The Origin and Development of Medical Museum Heritage in Padua
- Roberta Ballestriero. The Science and Ethics concerning the Legacy of Human Remains and Historical Collections: The Gordon Museum of Pathology in London
- R. Allen Shotwell. Between text and practice: the anatomical injections of Berengario da Carpi
- Maria Kavvadia. Sources and resources of court medicine in Mid-Sixteenth Rome: erudition as an epistemological and ethical claim
- Alessandra Celati. The experience of the physician Girolamo Donzellini in the 1575 Venetian plague: between Scientia and heterodoxy
- Elisabeth Moreau. Pestilence in Renaissance Platonic medicine: from astral causation to pharmacology and treatment
- Fabrizio Baldassarri. Elements of Descartes' medical Scientia: books, medical schools, and collaborations
- Luca Tonetti. Testing drugs in Giorgio Baglivi's dissertation on Vesicants
- Manuel De Carli. Tracing Senguerd's footprints: sciences and tarantism at Leiden Universtiy (1667-1715)
- Pierdaniele Giaretta. Classifications from an epistemological point of view with particular attention to the classifications of diseases
- List of abstracts