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Galen produced more work than any author in antiquity, [1] His surviving work runs to over 2.6 million words, and many more of his writings are now lost. [1]Karl Gottlob Kühn of Leipzig (1754–1840) published an edition of 122 of Galen's writings between 1821 and 1833.
Galen's writings were shown by Vesalius to describe details present in monkeys but not in humans, and he demonstrated Galen's limitations through books and hands-on demonstrations despite fierce opposition from orthodox pro-Galenists such as Jacobus Sylvius. Since Galen states that he is using observations of monkeys (human dissection was ...
Book of Antidotes of Pseudo-Galen (Kitāb al-Diryāq). [6] "In the paintings the facial cast of these [ruling] Turks is obviously reflected, and so are the special fashions and accoutrements they favored". [7] [8] This copy, from the second quarter of the 13th century, is thought to have been produced in Mosul. [1]
Growth of the eight largest Wikibooks sites (by language), July 2003–January 2010. Wikibooks (previously called Wikimedia Free Textbook Project and Wikimedia-Textbooks) is a wiki-based Wikimedia project hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation for the creation of free content digital textbooks and annotated texts that anyone can edit.
De Humani Corporis Fabrica Libri Septem (Latin, "On the Factory of the Human Body in Seven Books") is a set of books on human anatomy written by Andreas Vesalius (1514–1564) and published in 1543. It was a major advance in the history of anatomy over the long-dominant work of Galen, and presented itself as such.
The National Retail Federation confirmed this month that holiday spending could increase by as much as 3.5% from last year and hit a new record of $989 billion.
(Reuters) -Bath & Body Works on Monday raised its forecast for full-year adjusted profit and projected a smaller drop in annual sales on strong demand for its candles and fragrances during the ...
Airbnb host Edith Stone Lentini claimed she received a "sketchy" request from a parent who wanted to book her 3-bedroom, 5-bath home for a spooky rager on the Massachusetts island for Oct. 28.