Intensity Meters: New Notes and Discoveries on the Invention of Early Modern Precision Instruments

IF 0.5 2区 哲学 Q3 HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Fabrizio Bigotti
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The article sheds light on the invention of early modern precision instruments and their application in medicine, by analysing a neglected work by one of the Italian pupils of the physician Santorio Santori (1561–1636). This source provides vital information on Santorio’s experimental sample, and on the practical use and dimensions of instruments such as thermometers, hygrometers, pulsimeters and precision scales, showing that they also had a normative purpose: regulating the environmental factors affecting human health. The article first establishes the derivative nature of the source from Santorio’s teachings, and then contextualises the invention of precision instruments with regard to Santorio’s published and unpublished output. In the conclusions, I argue that the new instruments were meant to address the shortcomings of the traditional diagnostic rationale and are best conceptualised as ‘intensity meters’ meant to assess ‘the magnitude’ (magnitudo) of a patient’s illness in degrees.

强度计:近代早期精密仪器发明的新笔记和新发现
这篇文章通过分析意大利医生桑托里奥·桑托里(1561-1636)的一名学生的一项被忽视的工作,揭示了早期现代精密仪器的发明及其在医学上的应用。这一资料来源提供了关于桑托里奥的实验样品以及温度计、湿度计、脉搏计和精密秤等仪器的实际用途和尺寸的重要信息,表明它们也具有规范性目的:调节影响人类健康的环境因素。文章首先从桑托里奥的教导中建立了来源的衍生性质,然后将精密仪器的发明与桑托里奥发表和未发表的成果联系起来。在结论中,我认为新仪器旨在解决传统诊断原理的缺点,并且最好将其概念化为“强度计”,旨在以程度评估患者疾病的“幅度”(magnitudo)。
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Early Science and Medicine
Early Science and Medicine HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE-
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0.50
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22
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Early Science and Medicine (ESM) is a peer-reviewed international journal dedicated to the history of science, medicine and technology from the earliest times through to the end of the eighteenth century. The need to treat in a single journal all aspects of scientific activity and thought to the eighteenth century is due to two factors: to the continued importance of ancient sources throughout the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and to the comparably low degree of specialization and the high degree of disciplinary interdependence characterizing the period before the professionalization of science.
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