BOERHAAVEìS ORATIONSBrill Archive, 1983 - 374 pages Naturwissenschaften / Medizin (18. Jh.). |
Contents
Oration on the Thesis that Ciceros Interpretation of Epicurus | 18 |
Oration to Recommend the Study of Hippocrates | 54 |
Oration on the Usefulness of the Mechanical Method in Medicine | 85 |
Oration on the Simplicity of Purified Medicine | 121 |
Discourse on the Achievement of Certainty in Physics | 145 |
Discourse on Chemistry Purging Itself of Its Own Errors | 180 |
Academic Discourse delivered by Herman Boerhaave when | 214 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
accepted achieved alchemy already ancient argument Aristotle atoms atque audience authors Bacon Baconian become Boerhaave Boerhaave's botany Boyle Cartesian cause century chemical chemistry chemists Cicero classical Cnidos criticism CSEE defended derives Descartes Diogenes Laertius discussed diseases doctrine ecphrasis effects Epicurean Epicurus errors exordium experiments fact favour fluids Galen Garden Gassendi given Greek Helmont Herman Boerhaave Hippocrates Hippocratic honour human body humours iatrochemists Introduction kind knowledge Leiden Lindeboom Lucretius mathematical matter means mechanical mechanicians medicine mentioned mind modern motion nature observation opinion Oration Paracelsus passage phenomena philosophers physical physician Pierre Gassendi plants pleasure Plutarch praise preceding principles Professor proved quae quam quod recurrent referred remedies Renaissance rhetorical scientists sententia simplicity single Socrates soul speculative structure theory thesis Thessalus things tion treatise true truth University University of Leiden wholly wisdom