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Article: Le concept de semence dans les theories de la matiere a la Renaissance: De Marsile Ficin a Pierre Gassendi.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2006
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Hiro Hirai. Le concept de semence dans les theories de la matiere a la Renaissance: De Marsile Ficin a Pierre Gassendi.
De Diversis Artibus. Collection de Travaux de l'Academie Internationale d'Histoire des Sciences 72. Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2005. 576 pp. index. append. bibl. [euro]69. ISBN: 2-503-51561-4.
In antiquity, seeds, whether conceived of metaphysically, metaphorically, or materially, played a role in explanations of the physical world. For example, seeds as metaphors were featured in Presocratic accounts of the cosmos; discussions of the actual seeds of plants and animals were included in ancient medical writings as well as in ...