Annals of medical history . k duringthe time of one hundred pulse beats of ahealthy man and during the time of an De Staticis Experimentis of Nicolaus Cusaxus equal number of pulsations in a weak method he would apply to men ofvarious ages and with different same method was used in relation torespiration, especially in fevers. The Experiments on Statics, therefore,is full of suggestions far in advance of itstime. Some are, of course, only restatementsof ideas expressed by others before theMiddle Ages. Much of his work fell on deafears. Many years were to pass, even cen- W
Annals of medical history . k duringthe time of one hundred pulse beats of ahealthy man and during the time of an De Staticis Experimentis of Nicolaus Cusaxus equal number of pulsations in a weak method he would apply to men ofvarious ages and with different same method was used in relation torespiration, especially in fevers. The Experiments on Statics, therefore,is full of suggestions far in advance of itstime. Some are, of course, only restatementsof ideas expressed by others before theMiddle Ages. Much of his work fell on deafears. Many years were to pass, even cen- Wiiham Osier, who had the translationmade for me in London from his own firstedition of the works of Cusanus. Let me conclude this brief and verj-incomplete paper by a summary note onthe position Cusanus holds in history. Hewas not a great figure, when comparisonis made with the stellar lights of the Renais-sance who came after him, but even hisrelative importance has not been suflTici-ently emphasized. Burdened as he was by. The HosiiTAL at Cues, Germany turies, before the worth of these suggestionswas tested or proved. We have no knowledgethat Cusanus actually tested many of histheories himself. The work is certainlypartly speculative; Cusanus active mindformulated the problems and suggestedproof of them by laboratory methods. Afew of the geometrical and astronomicalproblems gave him much thought and heeven solved correctly some of the mathe-matical ones. Undoubtedly, he ponderedover them while traveling on his donkeythroughout Europe. Once, when riding ina carriage, he noticed the track of a flythrown off from the rim of a wheel, and fromthis observation he solved a mathematicalcurve. De Staticis Experimentis contains somuch of importance that one feels justifiedin producing a complete English translationof it. For this, I am indebted to the late Sir medieval theology, nevertheless, he sawand stated clearly certain principles ofscience and medicine that were either newor had
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