<p>[following is a chapter summery of Hiro Hirai&#8217;s book, Medical Humanism. Quotations are all from the primary sources quote in the book] Daniel Sennert (1572-1637), a professor of medicine at University of Louvain worked largely on the early seventeenth-century intersection of matter theory and life sciences, focusing on and developing a corpuscular interpretation of the [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chapter 5 discusses the theory of spontaneous generation by both the Renaissance Platonists such as Ficino and the Italian philosopher and scientist Fortunio Liceti. On the one camp, Platonists argue for the abiogenesis as evidence for the theory of universal animation and the existence of World-Soul, while on the other camp, a quasi-Corpuscularian doctor Liceti, [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[below is a summary of the chapters 1, 2 and 4 of Medical Humanism by Hiro Hirai. I chose these 3 chapters because of the thematic similarities they share, leaving out the chapter 3 on Schegk as somewhat distinct from the others.] The chapters 1, 2 and 4 of this book examine the interpretations of [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[the following is a chapter summary of Medical Humanism by Hiro Hirai; feedbacks are welcome; all the quotations are from quotations in the book] Jacob Schegk (1511-1587) advanced the theory of the plastic faculty, which imposed much influence upon later thinkers such as Daniel Sennert, William Harvey and even Leibniz. What this plastic faculty is [&hellip;]</p>

<p>Chapter 2 turns to the French physician Jean Fernel (1497-1558), and his interpretation of Galen in the neo-Platonic flavour. Contrary to Leoniceno via Simplicius, Fernel draws upon Marsilio Ficino to argue for the divinity of the soul. This chapter’s primary aim is to establish Fernel’s position on the status of the soul as essentially divine [&hellip;]</p>

<p>[The following is a summary of the book by Hiro Hiral, Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy (Brill Publishing, December 30th, 2011). Work in progress, and feedbacks are more than welcome.] Chapter 1 discusses about the historiographical survey of the concept of formative power by the humanist physician Leoniceno (1428-1524). Leoniceno’s embryological treatise, On Formative Power [&hellip;]</p>