Annals of medical history . ics Cusanus wasmuch in advance of his age. He wroteextensively on geometry and arithmetic, De Staticis Experimentis of Nicolaus Cusanus 123 partly in a philosophical vein. Cantor, inhis History of Mathematics, gives sometwenty pages to him. Cusanus preced-ed Regiomontanus (1436-76), sometimesknown as Johann Miiller, who wrote thefirst boot: on trigonometry (De Triangulis,Nuremberg, 1533) and completed Purbachsgreat work on the astronomy of was the outstanding figureof his time. He equipped the first Europeanobservatory, making the instruments h
Annals of medical history . ics Cusanus wasmuch in advance of his age. He wroteextensively on geometry and arithmetic, De Staticis Experimentis of Nicolaus Cusanus 123 partly in a philosophical vein. Cantor, inhis History of Mathematics, gives sometwenty pages to him. Cusanus preced-ed Regiomontanus (1436-76), sometimesknown as Johann Miiller, who wrote thefirst boot: on trigonometry (De Triangulis,Nuremberg, 1533) and completed Purbachsgreat work on the astronomy of was the outstanding figureof his time. He equipped the first Europeanobservatory, making the instruments him- ses his fundamental ideas on the use of thebalance in medicine and science. Mitchell says, in his dehghtful essay on theEarly History of Instrumental Precisionin Medicine, the history of the balance inmedicine is yet to be told. Cusanus use ofit forms an important chapter in its work leads directly to Sanctorius andhis metabohc studies with the steelyardchair and to Van Helmonts gravimetricanalysis of The House in Cues, Germany, tHiCH Nicolaus Cusanus was Born self, and had a printing press as early as1474. It is said that he was greatly influ-enced by the work of Cusanus. He died atthe early age of forty, twelve years afterCusanus. In one short paper by Cusanus, De Sta-ticis Experimentis, are found many ofhis interesting contributions to science. Itwas written and published as the fourthpart of a series of papers called Idiotae libriquatuor, in the form of a dialogue be-tween Idiota, or an ignorant man, andOrator. These four papers were publishedseparately as Idiota (1476). In TheExperiments on Statics, Cusanus expres- An English edition has been called to my attentionby Dr. E. C. Streeter: The Idiot in Four first and second of Wisdome. The third of theMinde. The fourth of statick Experiments, or experi- Cusanus first suggests that the balancemight be used to establish more accuratejudgments in regard to the qualities ofwater, blood, urine, he
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