Download or read book Physiologia written by Dennis Des Chene and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteenth-century Aristotelianism was the culmination of four centuries of commentary and criticism. Physiologia is one of the first books to provide an accessible and comprehensive guide to that tradition in natural philosophy. In an incisive and readable treatment, Dennis Des Chene illuminates the continuities and disruptions between medieval and modern philosophy and promotes a new understanding of the philosophical setting in which modern notions of science emerged.