Gideon Manning
Biographic Data
| ID | 3832309 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gideon Manning |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gideon |
| FAMILY NAME | Manning |
| SIGNATURE | MANNING G |
| AFFILIATIONS | California Institute of Technology |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Good Death in Early Modern Europe
The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In The Hour of Our Death (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific epoche of European history and was an historical inflection point, coinciding with the 18th century Enli…
Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by crit…
Descartes and the Bologna affair
Descartes is well known as a mathematician and natural philosopher. However, none of Descartes's biographers has described the invitation he received in 1633 to fill a chair in theoretical medicine at the University of Bologna, or the fact that he was already sufficiently known and respected for his medical knowledge that the invitation came four years before his first publication. In this note I authenticate and contextualize this event, which I…
"The History of "Hylomorphism
The origin of the term "hylomorphism" is shrouded in mystery in spite of its being used to distinguish Aristotle and the Peripatetics from competing traditions in science and philosophy. This paper details the history of "hylomorphism" from its nineteenth-century German origins in the correspondence between Friedrich Schleiermacher and Friedrich Jacobi to its first appearance in English in 1860, to its eventual use to refer to the Peripatetic com…
Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy
Matter and form have been fundamental principles in natural science since Greek Antiquity and their apparent rejection during the seventeenth century typically has been described as a precursor to the emergence of modern science. This volume reconsiders the fate of these principles and the complex history of their reception. By analyzing work being done in physics, chemistry, theology, physiology, psychology, and metaphysics, and by considering q…
Matter and form in early modern science and philosophy
Analogy and falsification in Descartes’ physics
Out on the Limb
In final paragraph of Discours de la Methode published in 1637, Descartes resolved to devote rest of [his] life to nothing other than trying to acquire some knowledge of nature from which we may derive rules in medicine.' In 1645, with a retrospective air, Descartes wrote to Marquess of Newcastle, the preservation of health has always been principal end of my studies; and following year he wrote to Hector-Pierre Chanut that his practical interest…
Out on the Limb
In final paragraph of Discours de la Methode published in 1637, Descartes resolved to devote rest of [his] life to nothing other than trying to acquire some knowledge of nature from which we may derive rules in medicine.' In 1645, with a retrospective air, Descartes wrote to Marquess of Newcastle, the preservation of health has always been principal end of my studies; and following year he wrote to Hector-Pierre Chanut that his practical interest…
Out on the Limb
In final paragraph of Discours de la Methode published in 1637, Descartes resolved to devote rest of [his] life to nothing other than trying to acquire some knowledge of nature from which we may derive rules in medicine.' In 1645, with a retrospective air, Descartes wrote to Marquess of Newcastle, the preservation of health has always been principal end of my studies; and following year he wrote to Hector-Pierre Chanut that his practical interest…
Matter and Form in Early Modern Science and Philosophy
Matter and form have been fundamental principles in natural science since Greek Antiquity and their apparent rejection during the seventeenth century typically has been described as a precursor to the emergence of modern science. This volume reconsiders the fate of these principles and the complex history of their reception. By analyzing work being done in physics, chemistry, theology, physiology, psychology, and metaphysics, and by considering q…
Matter and form in early modern science and philosophy
Analogy and falsification in Descartes’ physics
"The History of "Hylomorphism
The origin of the term "hylomorphism" is shrouded in mystery in spite of its being used to distinguish Aristotle and the Peripatetics from competing traditions in science and philosophy. This paper details the history of "hylomorphism" from its nineteenth-century German origins in the correspondence between Friedrich Schleiermacher and Friedrich Jacobi to its first appearance in English in 1860, to its eventual use to refer to the Peripatetic com…
Descartes and the Bologna affair
Descartes is well known as a mathematician and natural philosopher. However, none of Descartes's biographers has described the invitation he received in 1633 to fill a chair in theoretical medicine at the University of Bologna, or the fact that he was already sufficiently known and respected for his medical knowledge that the invitation came four years before his first publication. In this note I authenticate and contextualize this event, which I…
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon
The Cambridge Descartes Lexicon is the definitive reference source on René Descartes, 'the father of modern philosophy' and arguably among the most important philosophers of all time. Examining the full range of Descartes' achievements and legacy, it includes 256 in-depth entries that explain key concepts relating to his thought. Cumulatively they uncover interpretative disputes, trace his influences, and explain how his work was received by crit…
Collected Wisdom of the Early Modern Scholar
The Good Death in Early Modern Europe
The inevitability of death does not change its variability. In The Hour of Our Death (1981), Philippe Ariès positioned the sudden, unexpected, mass death of epidemics (especially from the Black Death) against the personalized, domesticated death for which one had time to prepare. The domesticated death, so he argued, appeared during a specific epoche of European history and was an historical inflection point, coinciding with the 18th century Enli…
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