Entre atomisme, alchimie et théologie
La réception des thèses d'Antoine de Villon et étienne de Clave contre Aristote, Paracelse et les 'cabalistes' (24-25 août 1624)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11848857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Didier Kahn (0000-0003-3996-5558, a CELLF 17e-18e-CNRS , Université de Paris IV , 1 rue Victor Cousin, Paris Cedex 05, F-75230, France E-mail, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 241-286 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-3790 • E-ISSN: 1464-505X |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00033790010012356 |
| OpenAlex | W2010465955 |
| Language | FR |
| Citations received | 3 |
We study here the reception by their contemporaries of Antoine de Villon's and étienne de Clave's anti-Aristotelian, almost materialistic and atomistic theses, which they intended to support publicly in Paris in 1624, using (al)chemical experiments to this purpose. After surveying the intellectual context which could have then nourished an atomism based upon (al)chemical experiments, we go on to show how these theses, far from having been perceived as prominently atomistic, were condemned by the contemporaries above all because of the theological implications of their provocative anti-Aristotelism. Alchemy itself was not directly implicated in the case of the theses. On the contrary, the theses were perceived as an alien body within the alchemical tradition
Alchemy · Atomism · Biology · Context (archaeology · Epistemology · Humanities · Materialism · Theology · Historical and Literary Studies · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History of Science and Medicine · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.12 |
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| Citation span | 2000 - 2010 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |