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- Title
Omnis Fibra Ex Fibra: Fibre Œconomies in Bonnet's and Diderot's Models of Organic Order.
- Authors
Cheung, Tobias
- Abstract
In a long-term transformation, that begins in Antiquity but takes a crucial turn in the Renaissance anatomies, the “fibre” becomes from around 1750 the operative building block and at the same time the first unifying principle of function-structure-complexes of organic bodies. It occupies the role that the cell takes up in the cell œconomies of the second third of the nineteenth century. In this paper, I will first discuss some key notions, technical analogies, and images that are related to “fibre”-concepts from Andreas Vesalius to Albrecht von Haller and then focus on Charles Bonnet's and Denis Diderot's fibre œconomies. In Bonnet's and Diderot's fibre œconomies, the self-active, regulating properties of fibre-agents and their material structures, that reach from fibre bundles, tissues and membranes to apparati of organs, are united within the concrete whole of individual organized “systems” or “networks.”
- Subjects
FIBERS; SENSES; SENSITIVITY (Personality trait); ORGANIZATION; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Early Science & Medicine, 2010, Vol 15, Issue 1/2, p66
- ISSN
1383-7427
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1163/138374210X12589831573108