The Ebb and Flow of Blood: A Case Study on the Early Modern Analogy of Movement of Seawaters and the Circulation of Blood in the Human Body

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The Ebb and Flow of Blood: A Case Study on the Early Modern Analogy of Movement of Seawaters and the Circulation of Blood in the Human Body

Original language description

The study concerns a seventeenth century analogy between the movement of seawaters and the movement of fluids in human body. The ideas of Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) on the geocosmos, expressed in his Mundus subterraneus (1664-1665) and Iter extaticumII (1657) are compared with the work of his correspondent, the physician from Wroclaw and editor of the first medicine journal, Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenheimb (1627-1672), who wrote Oceanus macro-microcosmicus (1664). In this analogy Sachs took intoaccount the latest discoveries of the Danish physician Thomas Bartholin (1616-1680) on the lymphatic system in addition to William Harvey's (1578-1657) experiments on the circulation of blood. These elements make Sachs' treatise an interesting mixture of a fundamentally analogical approach with the latest fi ndings of natural philosophy. Both authors use the analogy between the seawaters' movement and the movement of fl uids in the human body in different ways, which leads to an analysi

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Czech description

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Type

J_x - Unclassified - Peer-reviewed scientific article (Jimp, Jsc and Jost)

CEP classification

AA - Philosophy and religion

OECD FORD branch

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Project

<a href="/en/project/EE2.3.20.0138" target="_blank" >EE2.3.20.0138: Research Center for the Theory and History of Science</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2014

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Acta Comeniana

ISSN

0231-5955

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Volume of the periodical

52

Issue of the periodical within the volume

28

Country of publishing house

CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC

Number of pages

18

Pages from-to

127-144

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