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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 ...
Galen John Strawson (born 1952) is a British analytic philosopher and literary critic who works primarily on philosophy of mind, metaphysics (including free will, panpsychism, the mind-body problem, and the self), John Locke, David Hume, Immanuel Kant and Friedrich Nietzsche. [2]
He received a bachelor's degree in medicine on 19 March 1492, dismissed on 13 April 1496 (first on the candidate presentation list), then doctor on the following 17 May. At that date he was already married to Étiennette Turgis, with whom he had four sons ( Nicolas Cop , born around 1501, was the third).
A textbook is a manual of instruction or a standard book in any branch of study. Subcategories This category has the following 16 subcategories, out of 16 total.
Among the book series in the arts published by Cambridge University Press are: [4] Cambridge Film Classics; Cambridge Library Collection - Art and Architecture; Cambridge Studies in the History of Art; Contemporary Artists and their Critics; Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks; Fitzwilliam Museum Publications; Greater Medieval Houses
An open textbook is a textbook licensed under an open license, and made available online to be freely used by students, teachers and members of the public.Many open textbooks are distributed in either print, e-book, or audio formats that may be downloaded or purchased at little or no cost.
Book of Optics (c. 1000) - Exerted great influence on Western science. [16] It was translated into Latin and it was used until the early 17th century. [ 17 ] The German physician Hermann von Helmholtz reproduced several theories of visual perception that were found in the first Book of Optics , which he cited and copied from.