Contents

pp.：  5 – 6

Introduction

pp.：  7 – 16

Claire Crignon, Carsten Zelle, Nunzio Allocca

pp.：  7 – 16

I. THE DISPUTE BETWEEN METAPHYSICS AND EMPIRICISM

pp.：  17 – 18

The Debate about methodus medendi during the SecondHalf of the Seventeenth Century in England: ModernPhilosophical Readings of Classical Medical Empiricismin Bacon, Nedham, Willis and Boyle

pp.：  19 – 39

Claire Crignon

pp.：  19 – 39

The Status of Leibniz’ Medical Experiments:A Provisional Empiricism?

pp.：  40 – 60

Anne-Lise Rey

pp.：  40 – 60

Whytt and the Idea of Power:Physiological Evidence as a Challenge to the Eighteenth-Century Criticism of the Notion of Power

pp.：  61 – 84

Claire Etchegaray

pp.：  61 – 84

II. ARTS OF EMPIRICAL RESEARCH

pp.：  85 – 86

Learning to Read Nature:Francis Bacon’s Notion of Experiential Literacy(Experientia Literata)

pp.：  87 – 116

Guido Giglioni

pp.：  87 – 116

Of Snails and Horsetails:Anatomical Empiricism in the Early Modern Period

pp.：  117 – 134

Domenico Bertoloni Meli

pp.：  117 – 134

III. RELEVANCE OF CASE STUDIES

pp.：  135 – 136

Experiment, Observation, Self-observation.Empiricism and the ‘Reasonable Physicians’ of theEarly Enlightenment

pp.：  137 – 154

Carsten Zelle

pp.：  137 – 154

Writing Cases and Casuistic Reasoning in Karl PhilippMoritz’ Journal of Empirical Psychology

pp.：  155 – 170

Yvonne Wübben

pp.：  155 – 170

Indices

pp.：  171 – 174