Galen on Anatomical Procedures: The Later Books Tapa blanda - 2010 - 1st Edición

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Paperback / softback. New. Galen's Anatomical Procedures (c. 200 CE) embodies the results of a lifetime of practical research; it is largely based on verbatim notes of lectures delivered during actual demonstrations of dissection. This edition offers parts of book 9 and books 10-15, translated from an Arabic manuscript of the complete work.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Paperback. Very good. Paperback. 8 1/2" X 5 1/2". xix, 278pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Galen was probably the greatest medical writer of antiquity and certainly the most prolific. His Anatomical Procedures (c. 200 CE) embodies the results of a lifetime of practical research; it is largely based on verbatim notes of lectures delivered during actual demonstrations of dissection. The work comprises fifteen books, of which only the first eight-and-a-half have survived in the original Greek. An Arabic translation of the complete work has survived, however, and this has made possible the translation of the final six-and-a-half books (parts of book 9 and books 10-15). Duckworth's translation was originally made from a German translation of 1906, but for this 1962 edition it was revised by Lyons, working directly from the Arabic text, with the co-operation… Leer más

Cambridge University Press CUP , pp. 304 . Papeback. New.

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