1. [THE HANOVERIAN SCHOLAR AND THE DOCTOR OF THE PEASANTS].
- Author
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Giampietri F
- Subjects
- Air Pollution history, Air Pressure, Germany, History, 17th Century, History, 18th Century, Italy, Meteorology history, Water Supply history, Water Wells, Epidemiology history, Social Medicine history
- Abstract
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Bernardino Ramazzini met in Modena in autumn 1689, and made friends. Rereading their correspondence and finding other coeval documents, the author reconstructs a scientific relation forgotten by historians. They not only discussed on air pollution, artesian wells and barometric forecast, but - more generally - favored the foundation of social medicine on epidemiology. Hence the Leibnizian contribution to the European fortune of Third Hippocrates.
- Published
- 2015