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HELMONT, Joannes Baptista van (1579-1644). Ortus medicinae. Id est, initia physicae inaudita. Progressus medicinae novus, in morborum ultionem ad vitam longam. Edited by Franciscus Mercurius van Helmont (1618-1699) - Opuscula medica inaudita. I. De lithiasi. II. De febribus. III. De humoribus Galeni. IV. De peste. Editio secunda multo emendatior. Amsterdam: Ludovic Elzevier, 1648.
4o (199 x 152 mm). Contemporary sheep, rebacked, retaining original gilt spine. Provenance: J.J. Delaforte, D.M.F (signature on pastedown and title); P. Hewinck (signature on title).
FIRST EDITION of Ortus medicinae; second edition of Opuscula medica inaudita. Helmont, dissatisfied with the "useless logic" of traditional learning, pursued knowledge of the first principles of nature through experimentation. Like Paracelsus, whom he followed, his search was universal: "He sought a cosmological system and a unified view of natural science which would embrace all phenomena" (PMM). Despite the elements of mysticism in his works, he achieved considerable advances in chemistry - being the first to use the term "gas" and to distinguish between different gases - and medicine, as a founder of the modern ontological concept of disease. Helmont "stands at the very begining of the chemical revolution" (PMM); his works contain both elements of alchemy, such as an account of the transmutation of the "alchemist's stone", and scientific ideas, many of which Robert Boyle adopted and developed. Garrison-Morton 665; Heirs of Hippocrates 409; NLM/Krivatsy 5442; Osler 2929; PMM 135; Waller 4307; Wellcome III, p.241; Norman 1048.
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FIRST EDITION of Ortus medicinae; second edition of Opuscula medica inaudita. Helmont, dissatisfied with the "useless logic" of traditional learning, pursued knowledge of the first principles of nature through experimentation. Like Paracelsus, whom he followed, his search was universal: "He sought a cosmological system and a unified view of natural science which would embrace all phenomena" (PMM). Despite the elements of mysticism in his works, he achieved considerable advances in chemistry - being the first to use the term "gas" and to distinguish between different gases - and medicine, as a founder of the modern ontological concept of disease. Helmont "stands at the very begining of the chemical revolution" (PMM); his works contain both elements of alchemy, such as an account of the transmutation of the "alchemist's stone", and scientific ideas, many of which Robert Boyle adopted and developed. Garrison-Morton 665; Heirs of Hippocrates 409; NLM/Krivatsy 5442; Osler 2929; PMM 135; Waller 4307; Wellcome III, p.241; Norman 1048.