This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen. Scholarship about Worm has focused mainly on Wormâs collecting and the creation of his cabinet of curiosity, the Museum Wormianum, resulting in Wormâs rationale for his research being largely overlooked. Worm shared his many interests with a number of other physicians of the age, but in terms of breadth, few matched the variety of his concerns. For a man who considered himself first and foremost a physician and anatomist, his interests in Paracelsianism and collecting can at times be baffling, while his interests in antiquarianism, runes, and chronology strike the modern reader as at odds with his medical and natural philosophical interests. It is important to comprehend that Wormâs multi-faceted interests in the created world were underpinned by his Lutheran, Melanchthonian natural philosophy, and this served to unify all Wormâs scholarly undertakings, inquiries, and experiments in the single aim of reaching a better understanding of Godâs creation, the Book of Nature.
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This monograph offers the first comprehensive treatment of the multi-faceted scholarly interests of Ole Worm, professor of medicine at the University of Copenhagen.
Introduction / The Physician / The Professor / The Antiquarian / The Collector
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9781032270111
Publisert
2024-01-29
Utgiver
Vendor
Routledge
Vekt
540 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
AldersnivĂĽ
G, 01
SprĂĽk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
274
Forfatter
Biographical note
Ole Peter Grell is Emeritus Professor of Early Modern History at the Open University, UK.