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Mar 29, 2017 · While in his lecture notes on ‘Lectures on the Method to be Taught in Medicine’ he dealt with Newton's discoveries in physics, in his 1715 rectorial address Boerhaave was spelling out what he took as being the epistemological implications of Newton’s approach.
- Steffen Ducheyne
- 2017
May 29, 2018 · Although Boerhaave is not associated with any major discoveries in medicine or chemistry, his reputation as a teacher and writer was so great that his contemporaries considered him comparable to Sir Isaac Newton. He was considered the greatest clinical teacher of his time and the most eminent of European physicians.
The Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668-1738) was one of the most influential medical scientists and teachers of the early modern period. He introduced bedside, or clinical, teaching for medical students and argued that medicine should be based on a sound knowledge of the physical sciences and mathematics.
Three important episodes in, and contexts of, Boerhaave’s appropriation of Newton’s natural philosophical ideas and methods will be considered: 1710 –11, the time of his often neglected lectures on the place of physics in medicine; 1715, when he delivered his most famous rectorial address; and, finally, 1731/2, in publishing his Elementa chemiae.
In this paper I will probe into Herman Boerhaave’s (1668–1738) appropriation of Isaac Newton’s natural philosophy. It will be shown that Newton’s work served multiple purposes in Boerhaave’s oeuvre for he appropriated Newton’s work differently in
Apr 4, 2023 · Herman Boerhaave (1669–1739) was an extraordinarily accomplished and capable polymathic physician, a Calvinist theologian and philosopher, a polyglot, historian, mathematician, iatrochemist, botanist, and advocate for Cartesian mechanistic theories whose contributions to the advancement of chemistry, botany, and the teaching of medicine are lege...
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Nov 14, 2008 · This new edition of the Boerhaave biography reproduces Lindeboom's original Preface and a Foreword prepared by the British historian E. Ashworth Underwood, who offered significant aid to Lindeboom in the work's preparation.
