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Democritus Junior as Reader of Auctoritates: Robert Burton’s Method and The Anatomy of Melancholy

Democritus Junior as Reader of Auctoritates: Robert Burton’s Method and The Anatomy of Melancholy <p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay analyzes Robert Burton’s methodological approach to the subject of melancholy and draws comparisons between Burton’s method of inquiry and the 17th-century scientific method at large. Burton’s sources are hence examined and two epistemological lines of influence are singled out, one being characterized by deductive procedures (Galen, Ramus), and the other by inductivism (Hippocrates, pseudo-Hippocratic representation of Democritus). Combined by Burton, these traditions inspired the structure of Burton’s <i>Anatomy</i>, which allowed the concurrence of multiple opinions that mutually interact and automatically correct one another within a cento-like text.</p> http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the History of Ideas University of Pennsylvania Press

Democritus Junior as Reader of Auctoritates: Robert Burton’s Method and The Anatomy of Melancholy

Mori, Giuliano
Journal of the History of Ideas , Volume 77 (3) – Jul 25, 2016
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<p>Abstract:</p><p>This essay analyzes Robert Burton’s methodological approach to the subject of melancholy and draws comparisons between Burton’s method of inquiry and the 17th-century scientific method at large. Burton’s sources are hence examined and two epistemological lines of influence are singled out, one being characterized by deductive procedures (Galen, Ramus), and the other by inductivism (Hippocrates, pseudo-Hippocratic representation of Democritus). Combined by Burton, these traditions inspired the structure of Burton’s <i>Anatomy</i>, which allowed the concurrence of multiple opinions that mutually interact and automatically correct one another within a cento-like text.</p>

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Published: Jul 25, 2016

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