Sarah E Parker
Biographic Data
| ID | 1645789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah E Parker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah E |
| FAMILY NAME | Parker |
| SIGNATURE | PARKER S E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Jacksonville University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2467-2624 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses
Put a mark on the errors
Error is a neglected epistemological category in the history of science. This neglect has been driven by the commonsense idea that its elimination is a general good, which often renders it invisible or at least not worth noticing. At the end of the sixteenth century across Europe, medicine increasingly focused on "popular errors," a genre where learned doctors addressed potential patients to disperse false belief about treatments. By the mid-seve…
The Anatomy of Riches
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Reading and Viewing Sex in Early Modern French Vernacular Medicine
Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. Medicine was engaged in a broader struggle to establish itself as a legitimate and professionally defined discipline; yet many practitioners marketed their ideas to a non-professional public readership. Using both textual and visual material, this article analyzes the tension between these aims in two sixteenth-century French vernacular works that …
The Reader as Authorial Figure in Scientific Debate
In 1651, Alexander Ross published an attack on Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Bacon's Natural History and William Harvey's De generatione. Ross's work, Arcana Microcosmi, defended Aristotelian natural philosophy against the ‘new philosophy’ that figures like Bacon, Harvey and Browne represented. Though Ross's attacks on these authors make up no more than half of the treatise’s contents, the book’s paratextual materials emphasise scientifi…
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Reading and Viewing Sex in Early Modern French Vernacular Medicine
Discussions of sex in early modern medical discourse did not simply legitimize a titillating topic. Medicine was engaged in a broader struggle to establish itself as a legitimate and professionally defined discipline; yet many practitioners marketed their ideas to a non-professional public readership. Using both textual and visual material, this article analyzes the tension between these aims in two sixteenth-century French vernacular works that …
The Reader as Authorial Figure in Scientific Debate
In 1651, Alexander Ross published an attack on Thomas Browne's Pseudodoxia Epidemica, Bacon's Natural History and William Harvey's De generatione. Ross's work, Arcana Microcosmi, defended Aristotelian natural philosophy against the ‘new philosophy’ that figures like Bacon, Harvey and Browne represented. Though Ross's attacks on these authors make up no more than half of the treatise’s contents, the book’s paratextual materials emphasise scientifi…
The Anatomy of Riches
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Using Commonplace Books to Enrich Medieval and Renaissance Courses
Put a mark on the errors
Error is a neglected epistemological category in the history of science. This neglect has been driven by the commonsense idea that its elimination is a general good, which often renders it invisible or at least not worth noticing. At the end of the sixteenth century across Europe, medicine increasingly focused on "popular errors," a genre where learned doctors addressed potential patients to disperse false belief about treatments. By the mid-seve…
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