Science and Nature by Carolyn Merchant;

Science and Nature by Carolyn Merchant;

Author:Carolyn Merchant;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Taylor & Francis (Unlimited)


Leibniz spoke subsequently with praise and approval of both Lady Anne Conway and Van Helmont, although the latter he often found puzzling and quixotic. In the New Essays Concerning Hunan Understanding begun in 1697 and published posthumously in 1765, Leibniz referred to both as explicating the doctrine of vitalism better than their Renaissance predecessors, writing that he saw:

how it is necessary to explain rationally those who have lodged life and perception in all things, as Cardan, Campanella, and better than they, the late Countess of Connaway, a Platonist, and our friend, with late M. François Mercure Van Helmont (although elsewhere bristling with unintelligible paradoxes), with his friend the late Mr. Henry More.11



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