Gomez Pereira's Antoniana margarita : a work on natural philosophy, medicine and theology / by Jose Manuel Garcia Valverde, Peter Maxwell-Stuart.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

García Valverde, José Manuel, translator, commentator.

Maxwell-Stuart, P. G., translator, commentator.

Series:

Novum Testamentum, Supplements; volume176.

Novum Testamentum, Supplements; volume176

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Science--Early works to 1800.

Science.

Pereira, Gometius, 1500- Antoniana margarita.

Pereira, Gometius.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1,338 pages).

Place of Publication:

Leiden Boston : BRILL, 2019.

Summary:

Nearly a century before Descartes, Gómez Pereira published the Antoniana Margarita with the purpose of demonstrating the thesis of animal automatism, among many other things. The author included in his book several proofs of animal insensitivity and an original model aimed at explaining animal behaviour in the grounds of a purely mechanical system. In this sense, Pereira's work represents a critical appraisal of the traditional scholastic theory of the animal mind, as well as one of the first efforts to develop this question in the field of empirical observation and physio¬logical knowledge. It is precisely for this reason that Gómez Pereira must be recognized as one of the most valuable thinkers of the Spanish Renaissance. The editors, García Valverde and Maxwell-Stuart, offer the first critical edition of the Latin text, a careful translation and an extensive study that contextualizes its content in the philosophy of the sixteenth century.

Contents:

Front Matter

Copyright Page / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Preface / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Introduction / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Antoniana Margarita: a Work on Natural Philosophy, Medicine and Theology / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Prologues / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Index, or Table of Things Contained in This Work / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

The Reason for the Title of this Work / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

A Forewarning Readers should heed before starting to read this Work / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

The Author’s Aim in putting this Work together / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Part One / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Part Two / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Part Three / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Objections of Licentiate Miguel de Palacios, Professor of Sacred Theology in the University of Salamanca, to Several of the Many Paradoxes in Antoniana Margarita and in Their Defense / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Objections of Licentiate Miguel de Palacios / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Gómez Pereira’s Defence, in Reply to Certain Objections to Some of the Manifold Paradoxes of Antoniana Margarita / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Gómez Pereira’s Defence, in Reply to Certain Objections / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Back Matter

Bibliography / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart

Indexes / José Manuel García Valverde and Peter Maxwell-Stuart.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Pereira, Gometius, 1500- Antoniana margarita.

Pereira, Gometius, 1500- Antoniana margarita. English.

ISBN:

90-04-39504-0

OCLC:

1099540184

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004395046 DOI