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Notes on the historical vocabulary of neuroanatomy
1995
The Vesalian movement in sixteenth-century Spain.
1979
In the middle of the sixteenth-century under the direct influence of Vesalius's works there arose in Spain a movement devoted to the renewal of anatomical knowledge. It was one of the initial forces in the spread of the Vesalian reform, but in spite of that it has been almost completely ignored by specialized historical research.' The purpose of this article is to provide a general study of the movement with special emphasis on the conditions which determined its development. In the first place I should make it clear that the renewal in question did not arise from the relationship that Vesalius maintained throughout
Die Embryologie im Spannungsfeld zwischen Tradition und Empirie.
1991
Already in classical antiquity people dealt with the principle of formation, developing different theories. Researchers in the renaissance, working in the conflict zone between tradition and experience, tried to prove one or the other of these theories by the means of new observations, especially of chicken development. Aldrovandi was the first to see the real principle of formation of the hen's egg, i. e. the blastodisc, but he didn't recognize the importance of his discovery due to his close adherence to Aristotle in the theoretical field. Fabricius even thought that traditional knowledge was of more importance than his own excellent observations. Parisano was the first to succeed in maki…
The Pomar Codex (ca, 1590): plants and animals of the old world and from the Hernandez expedition to America.
1992
Abstract<title> RIASSUNTO </title>Si descrive un codice illustrato (ca. 1590), donato dal re Filippo II a Honorato Pomar, professore di medicina botanica all'Università di Valencia, e ora conservato nella biblioteca della stessa universita. Tale codice contiene 218 acquarelli di piante e animali del Vecchio Continente e provenienti dalla spedizione nelle Americhe di Hernandez (1571-1577). Inoltre, l'articolo si sofferma brevemente sull'interesse di Filippo II per la storia naturale, sulla spedizione di Hernandez e sulla cattedra di botanica medica all'universita di Valencia nel corso del sedicesimo secolo. Infine, si discute dell'identita dell'autore delle illustrazioni e dei te…