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  2. Galen - Wikipedia

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    Galen's Greek name Γαληνός (Galēnós) comes from the adjective γαληνός (galēnós) 'calm'. [28] Galen's Latin name (Aelius or Claudius) implies he had Roman citizenship. [29] Galen describes his early life in On the affections of the mind. He was born in September 129 AD. [6]

  3. Galenic corpus - Wikipedia

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    The Galenic corpus is the collection of writings of Galen, a prominent Greek physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire during the second century CE. Several of the works were written between 165–175 CE.

  4. History of the location of the soul - Wikipedia

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    Galen addresses that the proof for the liver is not as obvious as it was in the case of the heart and the brain. [13] Galen also made a focus on the view on nature. He agreed with ancient doctrine of the four elements which includes the earth, water, wind and the fire to embody the cold, hot dry and wet irreducible qualities. This made a ...

  5. Galen Strawson - Wikipedia

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    Galen Strawson's personal site 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 ]

  6. Humorism - Wikipedia

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    Galen combined his interpretation of the humors with his collection of ideas concerning nature from past philosophers in order to find conclusions about how the body works. For example, Galen maintained the idea of the presence of the Platonic tripartite soul, which consisted of " thumos (spiritedness), epithumos (directed spiritedness, i.e ...

  7. Did Tri-Cities scientist eat uranium to show radiation was ...

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    Did a Tri-Cities scientist eat radioactive uranium in the ‘80s to prove that it is harmless?. Maybe, says a recent new fact check by Snopes.com. Galen Winsor was a Richland nuclear chemist who ...

  8. Peri Alypias - Wikipedia

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    Peri Alypias (Ancient Greek: Περὶ Ἀλυπίας, lit. 'On Consolation from Grief'), also known as De indolentia, is the name of a number of treatises, the best known of which was composed by Galen after a massive fire in the centre of Rome in 192 AD.

  9. The Overdue, Under-Told Story Of The Clitoris

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    Claudius Galen Guesses At It. Perhaps the most famous doctor to come out of the Roman empire, Claudius Galen acknowledges the clitoris and theorizes that “all the parts, then, that men have, women have too, the difference between them lying in only one thing, namely, that in women the parts are within, whereas in men they are outside.”