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...he maintained a frequent correspondence with his Paduan colleagues, the astronomer Galileo Galilei and the anatomist Hieronymus Fabricius ab Aquapendente. Santorio was an early exponent of the iatrophysical school of medicine, which attempted to explain the workings of the animal body on purely mechanical grounds, and he adapted several of Galileo’s inventions to medical practice,...
Stahl was opposed to the medical mechanists, known as iatro-mechanists, for they eliminated the role of anima and reduced every vital phenomenon, physiological or pathological, to mechanical principles. Machines, he argued, would never produce the alacrity, precision, and spontaneity with which the organism responded to its needs and threats. Early literature on Stahl often implied that his...
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