Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 410

JEAN BAPTISTE VAN HELMONT (1577-1644) Les oeuvres. Jean Antoine Huguetan & Guillaume Barbier 1670 [8] 396 pp. 24.8 cm.

For more information on this author or work, see number: 408

Although Helmont's Ortus medicinae (see No. 409) was published posthumously, it reached a wide audience, and translations into English, French, German, and Flemish soon followed. The French translation published in 1671 is frequently described as the first edition because copies of this first issue of 1670 are so extremely rare. The work brings together Helmont's doctrine and concepts and clearly reveals how heavily mysticism influenced his thinking about scientific matters. Denounced by the Inquisition in 1624, Helmont was imprisoned for two years starting in 1634. His name was finally cleared in 1646, two years after his death.

See Related Record(s): 409

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