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Parasitic Worms: Their Role in Medicin[e] in Modern Europe
Full text linkLittle is known about the role that worms played in the lives of modern Europeans. This research strove to combine a multitude of primary sources to shape a cohesive depiction of the role of parasitic worms in modern Europe 1700-1800. The Scientific Revolution played a key role in changing the face of science in the eighteenth century. The microscope opened a new world of discovery, which natural philosophers took advantage of. Several natural philosopher's works combined to quite the spontaneous generation controversy, although it was not completely laid to rest until Pasteur's experiments in 1862. Eighteenth century physicians were able to shift their focus from the question of how worms arose in the human body to how they survived and recording the symptoms, treatments, and the demographic of individuals afflicted with worms. Worms was for the majority a childhood disease, and as such, from journals and diaries one is able to piece together an oblique picture of how adults and children dealt with death
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Science, Literature, and Rhetoric in Early Modern England (review)
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Thomas Hobbes and the Duke of Newcastle: A Study in the Mutuality of Patronage before the Establishment of the Royal Society
Full text linkThis study shows how patronage framed and fashioned the careers of Thomas Hobbes and
his patron William Cavendish, the earl of Newcastle. Newcastle's protection allowed
Hobbes to articulate heterodox ideas without immediate fear of reprisal. It also enabled
him to solidify his status as a gentleman and the intellectual equal of both his mentor and
other natural philosophers. When Hobbes offered his ideas on optics, motion, politics, and
philosophy as gifts to his patron, he was reaffirming his own honor and status while
acknowledging Newcastle's power. Hobbes always acted as if he was operating in the
space created by a noble patron, even after this place had been transformed by the Royal
Society. For Newcastle, intellectual patronage reaffirmed the status and honor he had lost
during the English Civil War. Newcastle tried to establish himself as a philosopher in his
own right by applying Hobbesian ideas to studies of politics, horsemanship, and swordsmanship.
Thus, the rewards of patronage were mutua
Motion and morality: Pierre Gassendı, Thomas Hobbes and the mechanical world-view
No full textJournal of the History of Ideas -- July-September 1985 -- pages 363-379
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