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Doña Oliva Sabuco Website |
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summary Charles LePois & Etienne de Clave. (Communication Professor Waithe -2000) |
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Charles LePois (Carolus Piso)(1563-1633), born in Nancy, France, was made Dean of the newly-established Faculty of Medicine of Pont à Mousson, a Jesuit University, in 1598. In a revolutionary 1618 treatise on medicine Choix d'observations, he stated -citing Sabuco- that the condition of hysteria had nothing to do with the uterus and could affect men as well as women, A Latin edition of his work was published in Germany as Sive observationes... (Hamburg; Hertel 1639) and again as Selectiorum Observationum ... (Lugduni Batavorum: Boutestein; Langerak 1641). Some 20C historians from Spain claim that LePois plagiarized (?)Nueva Filosofía |
Etienne de Clave's mentions in the preface to Book II of his Paradoxes ou Traités Philosophiques des Pierres et Pierreries (1635), Oliva Catalina (sic) with favor. He rhetorically asks whether he has any business publishing a book critical of Aristotle, and replies that he would not have dared to, had he not the model of others who had done so before. He cites an ancient, Justin Martyr, then the moderns including Gassendi, and ...this learned Spaniard, Doña Oliva, who refutes Aristotle aplenty, and goes as far as branding certain Aristotelian postulates as gags. |