Open AccessOrganic Mechanism and the Soul of Science
Author(s) -
Catherine Wilson
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
canadian journal of health history
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.117
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2371-0179
pISSN - 0823-2105
DOI - 10.3138/cbmh.26.1.85
Subject(s) - bates , soul , scientific revolution , mechanism (biology) , philosophy , reading (process) , classics , epistemology , history , engineering , linguistics , aerospace engineering
One of Donald Bates's most striking claims was that the bio-medical sciences were central to the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century and that its innovators drew heavily on the "organic mechanism" of the ancients. The paper elaborates on and defends Bates's proposal against a more conventional reading of the Scientific Revolution as driven by celestial and terrestrial mechanics and physics.
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