Marco Aurelio Severino

Marco Aurelio Severino is a Italian Médecin , born the November 2nd 1580 with Tarsia, Calabria and dead the July 16th 1656 with Naples.

After studies in Naples, he becomes doctor with Salerno before returning to be established in Naples. He teaches there the Anatomie and the Médecine, directs the hospital of the incurable ones. It is especially famous for its Zootomia Democritea ( Zootomie démocritéenne ) which is one of the first works where the anatomy of the animals is compared. But, like other scientists of its time, he does not seek the means making it possible to compare various organizations but the possibility of showing the unicity of the diagram of organization of all the organizations resulting from Creation. This leads it to juxtapose very right observations beside extremely general comments and sometimes completely erroneous. It thus shows, in Antiperipatias, hoc is, adversus Aristotelicos of respiratione piscium diatriba (1659-1665), that the fish breathe like the other animals and that their blood is hot.

Source

Stephan Schmitt (2006). At the origins of modern biology. Comparative anatomy of Aristote with the theory of the evolution . Belin (Paris), collection Belin Sup History of Sciences - Biology: 464 p.

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