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Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement

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This open access book offers new insights into the Venetian physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561-1636) and into the origins of quantification in medicine. At the turn of the seventeenth century, Sanctorius developed instruments to measure and quantify physiological change. As trivial as the quantit...

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Main Author: Hollerbach, Teresa (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Cham Springer Nature 2023
Subjects:
History of science
Philosophy of science
History of medicine
History of engineering & technology
Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge
Early Modern History of Medicine
Early Modern Dietetics
Early Modern Galenism
Early Modern Instrumentation
History of Weighing
Quantification in Physiology
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Sanctorius Sanctorius
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