Three Treatises on the Nature of Science - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Treatises on the Nature of Science write by Galen. This book was released on 1985-01-01. Three Treatises on the Nature of Science available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Contents: Introduction , Bibliography On the Sects for Beginners An Outline of Empiricism On Medical Experience Index of the Persons Mentioned in the Texts Index of the Subjects Mentioned in the Texts
Three Treatises on Copernican Theory
Three Treatises on Copernican Theory - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Treatises on Copernican Theory write by Nicolaus Copernicus. This book was released on 2018-10-17. Three Treatises on Copernican Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Includes "Commentariolus," Copernicus' hypotheses for heavenly motions; "Narratio Prima," popular introduction to Copernican theory; and "The Letter Against Werner," refutation of the views of a contemporary. Extensive editorial apparatus.
Three Treatises From Bec on the Nature of Monastic Life
Three Treatises From Bec on the Nature of Monastic Life - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Treatises From Bec on the Nature of Monastic Life write by Giles Constable. This book was released on 2008-06-15. Three Treatises From Bec on the Nature of Monastic Life available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The abbey of Bec was founded in the eleventh century and was one of the best-known and most influential monasteries in Normandy. Celebrated for its high standard of religious life and its intellectual activity, Bec also had an exceptional degree of institutional independence. The three treatises collected and translated in this volume - Tractatus de professionibus monachorum ('The Profession of Monks'), De professionibus abbatum ('The Profession of Abbots'), and De libertate Beccensis monasterii ('On the Liberty of the Monastery of Bec') - are a striking statement of the position of Bec in relation to episcopal and ducal (later royal) authorities. Little is known about the anonymous author of these works except that he was a twelfth-century monk with an attachment to Augustine and Gregory the Great, and that he had considerable knowledge of canon law. His purpose in writing these treatises was to assert and justify the privileges of Bec at a time when many bishops were reacting against monastic freedom, especially with regard to profession. This volume is an important contribution to understanding not only monasticism in Normandy, but also the conflict between church and state in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
The Oxford Classical Dictionary
The Oxford Classical Dictionary - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Oxford Classical Dictionary write by Simon Hornblower. This book was released on 2012-03-29. The Oxford Classical Dictionary available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The revised third edition of the 'Oxford Classical Dictionary' is the ultimate reference on the classical world containing over 6,200 entries. The 2003 revision includes minor corrections and updates and all Latin and Greek words in the text are now translated into English.
The Prince of Medicine
The Prince of Medicine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Prince of Medicine write by Susan P. Mattern. This book was released on 2013-06-03. The Prince of Medicine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's The Prince of Medicine offers the first authoritative biography in English of this brilliant, audacious, and profoundly influential figure. Like many Greek intellectuals living in the high Roman Empire, Galen was a prodigious polymath, writing on subjects as varied as ethics and eczema, grammar and gout. Indeed, he was (as he claimed) as highly regarded in his lifetime for his philosophical works as for his medical treatises. However, it is for medicine that he is most remembered today, and from the later Roman Empire through the Renaissance, medical education was based largely on his works. Even up to the twentieth century, he remained the single most influential figure in Western medicine. Yet he was a complicated individual, full of breathtaking arrogance, shameless self-promotion, and lacerating wit. He was fiercely competitive, once disemboweling a live monkey and challenging the physicians in attendance to correctly replace its organs. Relentless in his pursuit of anything that would cure the patient, he insisted on rigorous observation and, sometimes, daring experimentation. Even confronting one of history's most horrific events--a devastating outbreak of smallpox--he persevered, bearing patient witness to its predations, year after year. The Prince of Medicine gives us Galen as he lived his life, in the city of Rome at its apex of power and decadence, among his friends, his rivals, and his patients. It offers a deeply human and long-overdue portrait of one of ancient history's most significant and engaging figures.
