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Avicenna in Renaissance Italy : the Canon and medical teaching in Italian universities after 1500 /

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteent...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Siraisi, Nancy G. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1987]
Colección:Princeton legacy library
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • I. Text, Commentary, and Pedagogy in Renaissance Medicine
  • 2. The Canon of Avicenna
  • 3. The Canon in the Medieval Universities and the Humanist Attack on Avicenna
  • 4. The Canon in Italian Medical Education After 1500
  • 5. Renaissance Editions
  • 6. Commentators and Commentaries
  • 7. Philosophy and Science in a Medical Milieu
  • 8. Canon 1.1 and Renaissance Physiology
  • Conclusion
  • Appendices. Latin Editions of the Canon Published after 1500 and Manuscripts and Editions of Latin Commentaries on the Canon Written after 1500
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index.