TY - JOUR AU - Ciutacu, Sorin PY - 2020/04/17 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Francis Bacon, Jan Baptist Van Helmont and Demetrius Cantemir. Family resemblances of auctoritas in Early Modern Europe JF - Swedish Journal of Romanian Studies JA - SJRS VL - 3 IS - 1 SE - Cultural Studies DO - 10.35824/sjrs.v3i1.21465 UR - https://journals.lub.lu.se/sjrs/article/view/21465 SP - 206-217 AB - <p><em>The present paper stakes out the destiny of certain ideas on scientific methods and epistemic and ontological representations that spread in 17<sup>th</sup> century Europe like a cultural epidemiology of representations against a deist, theosophical, empiricist and occult maze-like background. Our intellectual history study evaluates the family resemblances of auctoritas of three polymaths: Francis Bacon, Jan Baptist Van Helmont and Demetrius Cantemir along the cultural corridors of knowledge. If Francis Bacon was a theoretical founder of doctrines and Jan Baptist Van Helmont was a complex experimenting spirit, Demetrius Cantemir was an able disseminator of philosophy in South Eastern Europe and a creative synthetic spirit bridging the Divan ideas of Western and Eastern minds caught up in the busy exchange of ideas of the Republic of Letters.</em></p> ER -