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Jungius, Joachim (1587–1657)

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10.4324/9780415249126-DA045-1
DOI: 10.4324/9780415249126-DA045-1
Version: v1,  Published online: 1998
Retrieved March 28, 2024, from https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/jungius-joachim-1587-1657/v-1

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Joachim Jungius was one of the most important seventeenth-century reformers of Aristotelian logic. Through critical assessment of Suárez and by recourse to Ramus, Zabarella and Melanchthon, he tried to replace Aristotelian syllogistics with a logic based on empirical judgment. This differed sharply from other contemporary attempts to reform logic in Protestant Europe. Jungius was a pioneer in the development of the modern concept of ‘element’ in chemistry, and made an important contribution to the classification of plants.

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Hafner, Ralph. Jungius, Joachim (1587–1657), 1998, doi:10.4324/9780415249126-DA045-1. Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, Taylor and Francis, https://www.rep.routledge.com/articles/biographical/jungius-joachim-1587-1657/v-1.
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