A Treatise On Organon Of Medicine Part 3
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In this paper I shall argue that Bacon, like Harvey, was engaged in resurrecting and transforming an ancient research agenda by re-writing major treatises of Aristotle in an early modern 'new science' context. Although Bacon's rewriting of Aristotle's Organon is obvious in his New Organon, it is less obvious that Bacon's History of Life and Death is an early modern re-working of Aristotle's Parva Naturalia (especially De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae, De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione)). I propose an interpretation of Bacon that dovetails with Cunningham's reading of Harvey in The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients, and argue that both Harvey and Bacon were engaged in similar projects. Bacon's History of Life and Death demonstrates how the ultimate aim of his Great Instauration comes to fruition in a medical experimental natural history that fuels an 'active natural philosophy' dedicated to the reformation of medicine, the prolongation of life and the greatest benefit to mankind.
In the final section of the paper I argue that Bacon, like Harvey, was engaged in resurrecting and transforming an ancient research agenda by re-writing major treatises of Aristotle in an early modern 'new science' context. Although Bacon's rewriting of Aristotle's Organon is obvious in his New Organon, it is less obvious that Bacon's History of Life and Death is an early modern re-working of Aristotle's Parva Naturalia (especially De Longitudine et Brevitate Vitae, De Juventute et Senectute, De Vita et Morte, De Respiratione)). I propose an interpretation of Bacon that dovetails with Cunningham's reading of Harvey in The Resurrection of the Anatomical Projects of the Ancients, and argue that both Harvey and Bacon were engaged in similar projects. Bacon's History of Life and Death demonstrates how the ultimate aim of his Great Instauration comes to fruition in a medical experimental natural history that fuels an 'active natural philosophy' dedicated to the reformation of medicine, the prolongation of life and the greatest benefit to mankind.
In this paper I shall argue that Bacon, like Harvey, was engaged in resurrecting and transforming an ancient research agenda by re-writing major treatises of Aristotle in an early modern 'new science' context.
The present project provides a comprehensive alternative to a handful of studies that discuss Bacon's relationship with Harvey, and the implications for biomedicine. First, unlike the earlier studies, I take into account a detailed awareness of Bacon's intellectual context, and the history of the project and the research it represents. Second, the present paper takes into account the influence of both Harvey and Bacon on the European historical imagination. Third, I argue that Harvey and Bacon shared fundamental concerns for the most important social transformations in the Renaissance: the Renaissance Humanist conviction of the intellectual and political independence of the individual, and the implications of this revolution for the role of medicine and medicine in general. This relationship is located in a larger context of contemporary debates about the nature of experimental knowledge. 827ec27edc