Galen: On Problematical Movements: 47 (Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries, Series Number 47) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0521115493 ISBN 13: 9780521115490

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2011

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A full scholarly edition of one of the most interesting works of Galen of Pergamum.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Vivian Nutton is Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine at University College London. One of the world's leading experts on Galen, he has published editions of and commentaries on Galen's On Prognosis (1979) and the editio princeps of On my Own Opinions (1999), and is preparing an annotated English translation of the recently discovered Avoiding Distress. He has also edited two collections of essays on Galen, while his Ancient Medicine (2004) is a major synthesis of the history of medicine in classical antiquity from the Greeks to the sixth century CE.

Gerrit Bos is Chair of the Martin-Buber-Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Cologne, and has published widely in the fields of Jewish studies, Islamic studies, Judeao-Arabic texts and medieval Islamic science and medicine. In addition to preparing The Medical Works of Moses Maimonides, Professor Bos is also involved with a series of medical-botanical Arabic-Hebrew-Romance synonym texts written in Hebrew characters, an edition of Ibn al-Jazzar's Zad al-musafir (Viaticum), and an edition of Averroes' commentary on the zoological works of Aristotle, extant only in Hebrew and Latin translations. He received the Maurice Amado Award for his work on Maimonides' medical texts.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0521115493
• ISBN 13: 9780521115490
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416
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