Over seventy years ago, Anneliese Maier demonstrated the vibrancy of debates on the question of mixture among medieval philosophers who attempted to determine what happens to the elements’ substantial forms and qualities when they form a new substance.1 More recently, Nancy Siraisi, Frans de Haas, Christoph Lüthy, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, and William Newman, among others, have shown that debates over the formation of mixtures intertwined with early modern medical teaching, alchemical experimentation, speculation on spontaneous generation, and the emergence of corpuscular theories of matter. Luca Burzelli’s fine study of Pietro Pomponazzi’s theory of the elements enriches our knowledge of approaches to the topic in the early part of the sixteenth century. Editions of six texts, based on reports of classroom lectures, are an invaluable source for understanding Pomponazzi’s teachings on the elements and his approach to the very difficult question of the generation of the forma mixti.

Pietro Pomponazzi and the Renaissance Theory of the Elements: A Study with Editions of Unpublished Texts, by Luca Burzelli

Martin, Craig
2025-01-01

Abstract

Over seventy years ago, Anneliese Maier demonstrated the vibrancy of debates on the question of mixture among medieval philosophers who attempted to determine what happens to the elements’ substantial forms and qualities when they form a new substance.1 More recently, Nancy Siraisi, Frans de Haas, Christoph Lüthy, Dag Nikolaus Hasse, and William Newman, among others, have shown that debates over the formation of mixtures intertwined with early modern medical teaching, alchemical experimentation, speculation on spontaneous generation, and the emergence of corpuscular theories of matter. Luca Burzelli’s fine study of Pietro Pomponazzi’s theory of the elements enriches our knowledge of approaches to the topic in the early part of the sixteenth century. Editions of six texts, based on reports of classroom lectures, are an invaluable source for understanding Pomponazzi’s teachings on the elements and his approach to the very difficult question of the generation of the forma mixti.
2025
63
File in questo prodotto:
File Dimensione Formato  
review Burzelli.pdf

non disponibili

Tipologia: Documento in Post-print
Licenza: Accesso chiuso-personale
Dimensione 178.01 kB
Formato Adobe PDF
178.01 kB Adobe PDF   Visualizza/Apri

I documenti in ARCA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.

Utilizza questo identificativo per citare o creare un link a questo documento: https://hdl.handle.net/10278/5097951
Citazioni
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.pmc??? ND
  • Scopus ND
  • ???jsp.display-item.citation.isi??? ND
social impact