@inbook{2cefca301bda4fb99a1d42dfda6af6ff,
title = "On Cartesian Embryology: A Debate on Monsters at the Bourdelot Academy",
abstract = "This essay aims to contribute to the discussion concerning the relationship between theories of imagination in mechanist embryology and theories of imagination in Late Aristotelian embryology, by examining a Conversation about a monstrous birth that took place in the late 1660s at the Bourdelot Academy. This Conversation, in which the participants debate the Discours touchant les forces de l{\textquoteright}imagination by the Protestant physician Pierre de Galatheau, represents a little-known episode in the reception of Descartes{\textquoteright} L{\textquoteright}Homme and of La Forge{\textquoteright}s Remarques, confirming that embryology is the most difficult chapter of Cartesian medicine.",
keywords = "Descartes, Embryology, Imagination, Monsters, Bourdelot Academy, Descartes, Embryology, Imagination, Monsters, Bourdelot Academy",
author = "Elena Rapetti",
year = "2023",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-2-503-59461-3",
series = "THE AGE OF DESCARTES (DESCARTES)",
pages = "377--392",
booktitle = "Descartes and Medicine: Problems, Responses and Survival of a Cartesian Discipline",
}