Galen and the world of knowledge / edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh, John Wilkins.
Galen and the world of knowledge / edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh, John Wilkins.
Galen and the world of knowledge / edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh, John Wilkins.
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Date
2009.
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N610.92/71
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English
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Physical content
xvii, 327 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Machine generated contents note: Introduction Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh and John Wilkins: 1. Galen's library Vivian Nutton; 2. Conventions of prefatory self-presentation in Galen's On the Order of My Own Books Jason König; 3. Demiurge and emperor in Galen's world of knowledge Rebecca Flemming...
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Publisher
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
2009.
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Summary
"This volume of new essays is based on a conference with the same title held at the University of Exeter in 2005. All those speaking on that occasion have written chapters in this volume, along with Riccardo Chiaradonna whose chapter has been specially prepared for the volume. The aim of this volume, like the conference on which it is based, is to...
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Galen and the world of knowledge / edited by Christopher Gill, Tim Whitmarsh, John Wilkins.
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Greek culture in the Roman world.
Based on a conference held at the University of Exeter in 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N610.92/71
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74VMxwNDE0KZ
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0521767512 (hardback)
9780521767514 (hardback)
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610.92
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991002573969702626
