Written by Lynn Thorndike

A History of Magic and Experimental Science, Volume 2 (of 2)

by Lynn Thorndike

Thus Physica is more inclusive than the modern science of Physics, while Hugh evidently does not employ it in the specific sense of the art of medicine, of which the word physica was sometimes used in the medieval period. Hugh goes on to say that Physica is sometimes still more broadly interpreted to designate natural philosophy in contrast to logi..