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ACADEMIC THEORIES OF GENERATION IN THE RENAISSA...

This volume deals with philosophically grounded theories of animal generation as found in two
different traditions: one  deriving primarily from Aristotelian natural philosophy and
specifically from his Generation of Animals  and another  deriving from two related medical
traditions  the Hippocratic and the Galenic. The book contains a classification and critique of
works that touch on the history of embryology and animal generation written before 1980. It
also contains translations of key sections of the works on which it is focused. It looks at two
different scholarly communities: the physicians (medici) and philosophers (philosophi)  that
share a set of textual resources and philosophical lineages  as well as a shared problem
(explaining animal generation)  but that nevertheless have different concerns and commitments.
The book demonstrates how those working in these two traditions not only shared a common
philosophical background in the arts curricula of the universities but were in constant
intercourse with each other. This book presents a test case of how scholarly communities
differentiate themselves from each other through methods of argument  empirical investigation 
and textual interpretations. It is all the more interesting because the two communities under
investigation have so much in common and yet  in the end  are distinct in a number of important
ways.

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