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SUMMARY:Taming experience: Giambattista Da Monte's commentary on the Hippo
 cratic Epidemics I - Craig Martin (Ca' Foscari University)
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CONTACT:Silvia M. Marchiori
DESCRIPTION:Since the eighteenth century\, scholars and physicians have ce
 lebrated the Hippocratic _Epidemics_\, especially books one and three\, as
  a model for observational medical practices. Recent studies have argued t
 hat sixteenth-century evaluations of the case studies in _Epidemics_ I and
  III helped fuel the emergence of a new empirical culture. In the earliest
  printed commentary on _Epidemics_ I (1554)\, Giambattista Da Monte\, a pr
 ofessor of medicine at Padua\, emphasized theoretical rules about prognost
 ics\, causation\, and the importance of philosophy. Da Monte recognized th
 e epistemological importance of experience\, yet he understood it to be su
 bordinated to theory. Rather than viewing _Epidemics_ I and its case studi
 es as a catalogue of raw observations that could form the foundation for n
 ew theories\, he argued that the descriptions of symptoms and seasonal con
 ditions were designed as exercises for teaching how to conjecture about di
 agnosis and therapy using already discovered principles.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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