Sanctorius Sanctorius and the Origins of Health Measurement /

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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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Hollerbach, Teresa (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:	Science-History. Science-Philosophy. Medicine-History. Technology. History. Knowledge, Theory of. History of Science. Philosophy of Science. History of Medicine. History of Technology. Epistemology. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book