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The Ebb and Flow of Blood : A Case Study on the Early Modern Analogy of Movement of Seawaters and the Circulation of Blood in the Human Body

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Lelková I.

Acta Comeniana (International review of Comenius studies and early modern intellectual history)

2014

vol. 28

127-144

The study concerns a seventeenth-century analogy between the movement of seawaters and the movement of fluids in human body. The ideas of Athanasius Kircher (1602–1680) on the geocosmos, expressed in his Mundus subterraneus (1664–1665) and Iter extaticum II (1657) are compared with the work of his correspondent, the physician from Wroclaw and editor of the first medicine journal, Philipp Jacob Sachs von Lewenheimb (1627–1672), who wrote Oceanus macro-microcosmicus (1664). In this analogy Sachs took into account the latest discoveries of the Danish physician Thomas Bartholin (1616–1680) on the lymphatic system in addition to William Harvey's (1578–1657) experiments on the circulation of blood. These elements make Sachs' treatise an interesting mixture of a undamentally analogical approach with the latest findings of natural philosophy. Both authors use the analogy between the seawaters' movement and the movement of fluids in the human body in different ways, which leads to an analysis of the Aristotelian and Platonic approaches to analogy in their works and the question of the shift from the Renaissance episteme to the modern one.

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Varšo M.

Studia theologica

2021

vol. 1

95-109

School plays, the heritage of the Renaissance, were an important means of education the Baroque era in Catholic and Protestant settings. In addition to a number of common elements of Renaissance culture, it naturally worked with confessional potential. It could be argued that the school plays served to express it. In the field of education, a kind of intellectual battle arena was being created in the setting of school theatre during the Counter‑Reformation, where prestige in a noble style was decided upon. The performances of both the Protestant and the Catholic camps, to express their own religious and cultural wealth, are worthy of admiration. I deal in the present study with the specific theme of the representation of the centuries‑old tradition of making a vow by three sages/kings on the school scene in the second half of the seventeenth century in Upper Hungary, with the question as to whether or not the given confessions left their mark in the presentation itself, and if so, in what shape. The essentials texts were: Periocha of the school play from the Catholic setting Magnes Amoris Divini = The Attraction of God’s Love from the Spišská Kapitula (1650) with regard to the Moravian declamation play Declamatio Genethliaca de Jesu Christo Recens Nato = Birthday Declamation about the New‑Born Christ (seventeenth century) and complete records of three school declamation plays from the Protestant setting: Ein zweifacher poetischer Act… = Double Poetic Act… from Prešov (1651), Lusus Scholasticus = Rhetorical Play from Ilava (1653) and Jesus Desiderium et Delicium Piorum = Jesus Desire and Enjoyment of the Pious from the Prešov provenience (1667?‒1673).

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The Ebb and Flow of Blood : A Case Study on the Early Modern Analogy of Movement of Seawaters and the Circulation of Blood in the Human Body

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