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10. The beginning of quantification in physiology

69 The aim of this paper is to outline some of the literary data, which came into shape under the influence of the late medieval and the Renaissance conceptions, in relation to the scientific development of a quantified medical theory, and to illustrate these in the development of Baroque medicine later. It seems that Nicolaus of Cusa was the first to apply the fundamental principles of measuring, in which he preceded the experimental practice of van Heimoñ with 150 years.