Annals of medical history . ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY Volume IV Summer 1922 Number 2 DE STATICIS EXPERIMENTIS OF NICOLAUS CUSANUS*By HENRY VIETS, BOSTON, BOUT five hundredyears ago the worldwas entering into aperiod of rebirth afterits long lethargy ofthe Middle Ages. Itwas a period of be-ginning mental unrestand experimentahsm, both partly ruled bythe spirit of adventure. Men were breakinga^^•ay from narrow, analytical medievalismto synthesize and build up a broad out-look on life. They were no longer satis-fied to five a monastic fife and spendtheir years scanning a single manusc
Annals of medical history . ANNALS OF MEDICAL HISTORY Volume IV Summer 1922 Number 2 DE STATICIS EXPERIMENTIS OF NICOLAUS CUSANUS*By HENRY VIETS, BOSTON, BOUT five hundredyears ago the worldwas entering into aperiod of rebirth afterits long lethargy ofthe Middle Ages. Itwas a period of be-ginning mental unrestand experimentahsm, both partly ruled bythe spirit of adventure. Men were breakinga^^•ay from narrow, analytical medievalismto synthesize and build up a broad out-look on life. They were no longer satis-fied to five a monastic fife and spendtheir years scanning a single manuscriptas dependent thinkers. Independence ofthought, with its self-conscious freedom,became the watchword of the are all familiar with the great figuresof both the Renaissance and the Reforma-tion after the year 1500. Fifty years beforethis date, however, certain men, some ofthem thinking a century in advance of theirtime, were laying the foundation stones onwhich the Renaissance was to be of them, little known in the annals ofmedical history, was almost the first tobreak away from the narrowness of theMiddle Ages and become a s
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