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Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Texts, Translations, and Transliterations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Plato's Timaeus as Universal Text -- Chapter 1 Galen and the 'Medical�...
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| Dokumenttyp: | Online-Ressource Buch |
| Sprache: | English |
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Cambridge
: Cambridge University Press
, 2020
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| Online Zugang: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/proquest-ebook-central-altertum/ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bsbfidaltertumswissenschaften/detail.action?docID=6408377 |
| E-Book-Pakete: | ProQuest Ebook Central : Classical Studies Collection |
| Zusammenfassung: | Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Texts, Translations, and Transliterations -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Plato's Timaeus as Universal Text -- Chapter 1 Galen and the 'Medical' Timaeus -- Chapter 2 From the Heavens to the Body: Ḥunayn's Ophthalmology -- Chapter 3 Al-Rāzī: The 'Arab Galen' and his Plato, New Disciplinary Ideals -- Chapter 4 Laying Down the Law: Avicenna and his Medical Project -- Chapter 5 Uprooting the Timaeus: Maimonides and the Re-medicalization of Galenism -- Conclusion: Medicine Disciplined -- References -- Index Locorum -- General Index. Examines how Galen and his medieval Arabic successors invoke Plato's Timaeus to reimagine medicine and philosophy |
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| Beschreibung: | 1 Online-Ressource (260 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781108606561 |
