The role of metaphors in William Harvey's thought

• Autores: Jarmo Pulkkinen
• Localización: Philosophies of technology: Francis Bacon and his contemporaries / coord. por Claus Zittel, Vol. 2, 2008 (Volume two), ISBN 978-90-04-17050-6, págs. 253-285
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • 1. Introduction -- 2. The functions of metaphor -- 3. Trands in Harvey scholarship -- 4. Traditional view of the function of the heart and the movement of blood -- 5. The role of experimental observation -- 6. Observation vs. theory -- 7. The macrocosm metaphor -- 8. Harvey's use of technological and social metaphors -- 9. Social vs. Technological metaphors -- Selective bibliography