Galen, >On Demonstration: Reconstruction of a Lost Treatise from Greek and Arabic Sources by Havrda, Maty?s
Galen, >On Demonstration: Reconstruction of a Lost Treatise from Greek and Arabic Sources by Havrda, Maty?s

Galen, >On Demonstration: Reconstruction of a Lost Treatise from Greek and Arabic Sources

Galen's On Demonstration (written c. 160 C.E.) was a tour de force of scientific methodology, loosely based...
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Author: Maty?s Havrda
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Language: English
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Galen, >On Demonstration: Reconstruction of a Lost Treatise from Greek and Arabic Sources by Havrda, Maty?s

Galen, >On Demonstration: Reconstruction of a Lost Treatise from Greek and Arabic Sources

$540.97
Galen, >On Demonstration: Reconstruction of a Lost Treatise from Greek and Arabic Sources by Havrda, Maty?s

Galen, >On Demonstration: Reconstruction of a Lost Treatise from Greek and Arabic Sources

$540.97
Author: Maty?s Havrda
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Description

Galen's On Demonstration (written c. 160 C.E.) was a tour de force of scientific methodology, loosely based on Aristotle's (and Theophrastus') Posterior Analytics and suited to the needs of a philosophically minded doctor. In its fifteen volumes, Galen outlined the theory of demonstration and the method of discovering premisses in natural-philosophical arguments, and rehearsed exemplary discussions to show how one should proceed when dealing with scientific problems. His polemics on issues in Aristotle's physics attracted the attention of Alexander of Aphrodisias and the Greek Neoplatonists and made a significant impact on Arabic philosophy. On Demonstration is lost, but parts of it can be reconstructed from Greek and Arabic sources. This book is a collection of all available testimonia, some published for the first time. They are accompanied by notes, translation, and a substantive introduction that deals with the sources, the history of scholarship, the purpose, structure and contents of the treatise, and its Arabic reception. The book will be useful for students and scholars of ancient and medieval medicine and philosophy, as well as those engaged in the study of the classical world, Graeco-Arabic studies or Islamic studies.



Author: Maty?s Havrda, Pauline Koetschet
Publisher: de Gruyter
Published: 01/27/2025
Pages: 249
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.34lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.63d
ISBN: 9783119149891

About the Author

M. Havrda, Acad. of Sciences, Prague; P. Koetschet, Inst. fran?ais du Proche-Orient, Beyrouth.


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