Medical Humanism and Natural Philosophy: Renaissance Debates on Matter, Life and the Soul
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2. The Plastic Faculty as the Instrument of God3. The Plastic Faculty as the Second Actuality; 4. Is the Plastic Faculty Corporeal or Incorporeal?; 5. The Divine Vehicle of the Plastic Faculty; 6. The Separability of the Divine Vehicle; 7. Is the Plastic Faculty a Part of the Soul?; 8. Conclusion; Chapter Four Cornelius Gemma and His Neoplatonic Reading of Hippocrates; 1. Introduction; 2. Fernel and the Hippocratic Notion of "Something Divine"; 3. Cardano and His Hippocratism; 4. Gemma and His Neoplatonic Hippocratism; 5. Petrus Severinus and the Parisian Connection?