The Holy Illness of Laches: Dialogue about the Science in Alexandria.

Abstract

 The science developed in the Alexandrian Museum -during the 1^st and 3^rd centuries BC- conluded a long process of cultural maturity, theoretical settlement, epistemological selection process, methodological design –both of the formal sciences and of the factual ones- and social institutionalization. The presocratic philosophy of nature or the vast sistematizing determination –scientific and philosophical- of Aristotle survive and encourage the investigation and the treaties of Euclid, Hipparchus, Archimedes or Herophilos. However, a more polished manner of conceiving the theory-experience relation is born, in which Mathematics reigned in a singular way. Biomedical sciences also achieve to work out, on pitagoric and hipocratic basis, the first complete interpretative chart of the physiological activity. The following pages try to present, by means of an imaginary dialogue- which could easily have been real-, the horizons of that physiology, the philosophical questions it raised and the medical practicing it was medium of.