Monti M T
Centro di studi del pensiero filosofico del '500 e del '600 in relazione ai problemi della scienza, Milano, Italie.
Rev Hist Pharm (Paris). 1994 Jan-Mar;47(1):107-27.
The intellectual biography of Jacques Daviel (1693-1762) offers unexpected opportunities to recall fundamental steps in the history of scientific ideas, academic institutions and surgical techniques. Kepler had, in fact, ousted the crystalline lens from the full seat of the visual power to the refracting medium, but his work had no effect on the central core of the eye doctors' practice, namely, cataract surgery. Daviel's audacity, which was not to push down but to extract the lens with the cataract, brought the Keplerian revolution to a completion. In addition, physiologists and philsophers tried to befriend Daviel, and they made use of his exceptional manual dexterity to work out Molyneux's question, that is, the test of the man born blind who recovered his sight, which posed problems in the 18th century in the theory of knowledge.
雅克·戴维（1693 - 1762）的学术生平为回顾科学思想、学术机构及外科技术发展历程中的关键步骤提供了意想不到的契机。事实上，开普勒已将晶状体在视觉功能中的核心地位转移至屈光介质，但他的研究对眼科医生的核心业务——白内障手术却并无影响。戴维的大胆之处在于，不是将晶状体推下，而是将其与白内障一同摘除，从而使开普勒式的变革得以完善。此外，生理学家和哲学家们试图与戴维交好，并利用他非凡的手部灵活性来解决莫利纽克斯问题，即在18世纪知识理论中颇具争议的“天生盲人复明测试”问题。
