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Author: Jaap Mansfeld
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2020-08-10
Total Pages: 2381
ISBN-13: 9004428402
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new reconstruction and edition of the Placita of Aëtius (ca. 50 CE), arguably the most important work of ancient doxography covering the entire field of natural philosophy. Accompanied by a full commentary, it replaces the seminal edition of Herman Diels (1879).
Author: Jaap Mansfeld
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2020-03-18
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ISBN-13: 9789004434400
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A new reconstruction and text of the Placita of Aëtius (ca. 50 CE), accompanied by a full commentary and an extensive collection of related texts. This is the five-volume set of studies on Aëtius (1996-2020) and uses an innovative methodology to replace the seminal edition of Hermann Diels (1879).
Author: Jenny Bryan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-09-13
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 1108606024
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy is often characterised in terms of competitive individuals debating orally with one another in public arenas. But it also developed over its long history a sense in which philosophers might acknowledge some other particular philosopher or group of philosophers as an authority and offer to that authority explicit intellectual allegiance. This is most obvious in the development after the classical period of the philosophical 'schools' with agreed founders and, most importantly, canonical founding texts. There also developed a tradition of commentary, interpretation, and discussion of texts which itself became a mode of philosophical debate. As time went on, the weight of a growing tradition of reading and appealing to a certain corpus of foundational texts began to shape how later antiquity viewed its philosophical past and also how philosophical debate and inquiry was conducted. In this book leading scholars explore aspects of these important developments.
Author: Vivian Nutton
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-04-30
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 1000061604
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume offers a comprehensive biography of the Roman physician Galen, and explores his activities and ideas as a doctor and intellectual, as well as his reception in later centuries. Nutton’s wide-ranging study surveys Galen's early life and medical education, as well as his later career in Rome and his role as court physician for over forty years. It examines Galen's philosophical approach to medicine and the body, his practices of prognosis and dissection, and his ideas about preventative medicine and drugs. A final chapter explores the continuing impact of Galen's work in the centuries after his death, from his pre-eminence in Islamic medicine to his resurgence in Western medicine in the Renaissance, and his continuing impact through to the nineteenth century even after the discoveries of Vesalius and Harvey. Galen is the definitive biography this fascinating figure, written by the preeminent Galen scholar, and offers an invaluable resource for anyone interested in Galen and his work, and the history of medicine more broadly.
Author: William Fortenbaugh
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-09-29
Total Pages: 486
ISBN-13: 1351487930
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Volume 16 of Transaction's acclaimed Rutgers University Studies in Classical Humanities series, continues the work of Project Theophrastus on the School of Aristotle. The subject of this volume is Strato of Lampsacus in Mysia on the Hellespont. Strato was the third head of the Peripatetic School after Aristotle and Theophrastus. He succeeded the latter in c. 286 BCE and was in turn succeeded by Lyco of Troas in c. 268. Diogenes Laertius describes Strato as a distinguished person who became known as "the physicist," because more than anyone else he devoted himself to the careful study of nature. Strato's concern with the physical world is well attested by the titles of his books: On the Void, On the Heaven, and On the Wind. His other books point to a keen interest in human physiology, animal life and diseases. But it would be a mistake to think that Strato was uninterested in other areas of philosophic concern. Indeed, he wrote works on logic, first principles, theology, politics and ethics. None of this work survives intact, but the reports that have come down to us reveal much of present-day interest. Included is a new and complete edition of the ancient sources, together with a critical apparatus to the ancient texts, an English translation, and notes to the translation.
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)
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Published: 1880
Total Pages: 1030
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)
Publisher:
Published: 1880
Total Pages: 942
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Liba Taub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-01-30
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 1107092485
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.
Author: Jaap Mansfeld
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2009-10-23
Total Pages: 664
ISBN-13: 9004193235
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This collection of essays written between 1989 and 2009 records the authors’ exploration of the important but elusive genre of ancient doxography. Focusing primarily on the Placita of Aëtius, it can be used as a companion volume for the two earlier volumes of Aëtiana.
