Abstract English anatomist William Harvey (1578–1657), and especially his De motu cordis
(1628), played a prominent role in the rise of mechanical and experimental approaches to …

The generation of animals was a difficult phenomenon to explain in the seventeenth century,
having long been a problem in natural philosophy, theology, and medicine. In this paper, I …

I describe the place of teleology in William Harvey's understanding of anatomy, drawing
especially on his lecture and working notes from (roughly) the decade leading up to the …

At the end of the sixteenth century new anatomical knowledge led both empirically minded
philosophers and philosophically minded anatomists to rethink theories of light, color, and …

In this dissertation, I examine the relation between mechanism and teleology in Descartes's
physiology, placing his views in a wider medical and anatomical context. I show that in this …

This chapter examines the Jesuit polymath Christoph Scheiner's (1573–1650) 1619 work,
Oculus hoc est: fundamentum opticum, or The Eye, that is, the Foundation of Optics …

Este trabajo plantea desde una perspectiva histórico-filosófica una reflexión sobre la idea
de epigénesis en la obra de W. Harvey Exercitationes de generatione animalium (1651). El …

This paper takes an organicist perspective of W. Harvey's conception of epigenesis in his
work Exercitationes de generatione animalium (1651). In line with this reading, I provide a …

This dissertation addresses the heartbeat and the systems of natural philosophy that were
used to explain it in the 17th century. Thus, I work in two domains of explanation. The first …

Although science knowledge is variable and theoretically dependent, middle school
students have a view that the concept of scientific knowledge is not clear and even scientific …