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Abdy was Law Lecturer at Gresham College, before which he had been Regious Professor of Laws at Cambridge University.
The great medieval synthesis of Galenic medicine. Facsimile reprint of the London 1930 edition. "This translation of Book I of the Canon is accompanied by a large number of valuable notes and comments on the text, which bring out the close connection between Arabic and Chinese medicine, and the influence which Avicenna had upon many medieval scholars" [GM-5] #45.
Regarded as the finest translation into English of the great medieval Spanish epic, Poema del Mio Cid. Blackburn, who was much inlfuenced by Ezra Pound, published in his lifetime thirteen books of poetry and five major translations. His translation of the Cid was designed to be read aloud, since the original was a spoken text.
With a new 12-page introduction and updated bibliography. Originally issued as the author's doctoral thesis at New York University and published in 1932 by Oxford University Press as the second section in Three Chaucer Studies.
The bibliography for the English translation was revised and enlarged by the translator and Joseph Betz.
Though the abridged one-volume edition is common, the original set is nearly impossible to find. The first full-scale history of psychology in English and still a valuable reference source.
Facsimile reprint of the rare London 1586 first edition.
An Itlian edition appeared in 1924.
Diepgen's first history of medicine, with a number of later incarnations, culminating in his masterful 1949-1955 history [GM 6445]. Band III (Neuzeit) appeared in 1919.
Not in OCLC. Italian translation of Erasmus's writings on pedagogy.
Erbstösser held the Chair of Medieval Studies at Karl Marx University in Leipzig.
GM-5 1648 (original edition). With a useful eight page introductory essay by Saffron on Fort.
The 1968 second edition was slightly altered, this third (and final) edition is considerably revised.
GM 6524.1 One of the earliest attempts in English to provide a comprehensive account of the subject.
Reprint of the London 1608 Harrington translation with the Latin text added, plus notes and the useful introductions by Packard and Garrison.
Reprint of the London 1608 Harrington translation with the Latin text added interstitially.
Pirated American reprints of B. G. Babington's translations published by the Sydenham Society in London. The Dancing Mania is the classic work on the subject.
The classic work on the subject.
Biography of an important Elizabethan musician, sometimes termed the Liszt of his age.
Spiritual biography of one of the great saints of Tibetan Buddhism.
Originally published as two separate books in 1955 and 1971, of which these are facsimile reprints (but without reproducing the original title-pages). An essential resource for the history of British logic and a valuable sourcebook in the history of ideas. "Still the only comprehensive introduction go logic in England" [Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy].
Facsimile of the 1491 first edition of the first important printed medical book. With an appendix reproducing four illustrations from the 1493 Italian edition with commentary by Charles Singer. Reproduces in facsimile the original Latin text.
With 100 pages of historical introduction by Archer and Comfort.
Facsimile volume produced in 1967 for the Georg-Agricola-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften und der Technik … and issued in 1968 by Phaidon London New York. Facsimile volume issued without a titlepage, information taken from the label tipped-in to the front and rear paste-downs. The manuscript dates from 1402-1404.
With a 50-page scholarly introduction by Aldington.
Apparently not in Cordasco. OCLC records a microfilm copy dated 1869 but I don't believe it as NSTC records only the 1870 date. Reprints the text of the Villa Nova Latin edition with an erudite introduction and notes by the notable American medical jurisprudent and forensic psychiatrist John Ordronaux [1830-1908]. Latin and English text on facing pages. Contains brief sections on every medical category including on mental condition, refreshment for the brain, headaches, over-drinking, antidotes to poisons, the temperaments, toothache, etc.
Later reprints in English were titled Satanism and Witchcraft: A Study in Medieval Superstition.
GM 6645. Chapters on early Greek medicine, the post-hippocrateic schools, Galen, early Christianity & medicine, Arab medicine, the middle ages, the renaissance, etc.
Though probably completed around 1477, Norton's chemical tract (one of three he wrote) did not appear in English until 1652 when Ashmole published his Theatrum Chemicum, preceded by a 1618 Latin translation and a 1625 German translation.
The four lectures are on the value and importance of a study of the history of medicine, Greek, Medieval, and Renaissance medicine.
DSB XI: 95-98; Wing P2982; Wheeler Gift Catalogue 64b; Norman Catalog 1726; Wellcome IV, p. 418; Thorndike, History of Magic & Experimental Science, VI: 418-422. Porta's first and best-known work and the basis for his reputation originally appeared in Latin in 1558 in four books, then was vastly expanded into the 20 books of the 1589 edition, of which this is the English translation. As M. Howard Rienstra noted in the DSB, Porta's book displays "that unique combination of curiosity and credulity common in the late Renaissance." In the enlarged 1589 edition, though, "Natural magic is no longer quite so pretentiously conceived as in the first edition. It presumes an orderly and rational universe into which the magician-scientist has insights that are revealed to him because of his virtue and his study. … The 1589 edition represents in part the work, discussions, and experiments that took place in Porta's academy [i.e., the Accademia dei Segreti, sometime before 1580]—hence the emphasis on experimentation and application in his definition of natural magic."Porta's empirical investigations into magnetism and optics were especially important. "Porta was the first to add a concave lens to the aperture of the camera obscura, and his comparison of the camera lens to the pupil of the eye provided an easily understood demonstration that the source of visual images lay outside the eye" [Norman catalog].
With a 30 page introduction by the editors.
Wing S317. The first work on the philosophy of law written in England and a classic work on equity. "Legal rules are criticized by religious and moral standards, and there are many enquiries about the law of reason and of nature, and the foundations of the common law. It put into popular form canonist learning as to the nature and objects of law and the different kinds of law, and facilitated the development of these principles on active lines. The book was very well known in the legal profession, frequently cited, and often reprinted, and it exercised great influence on the development of equity" [Oxford Companion to Law, pp. 1098-99].
GM 6783. An important collection. Bibliographs 490 incunabula, 35 early Western manuscripts, and 127 Oriental manuscripts. Has concordances for the incunabula with Klebs and Stillwell.
GM 6783.
OCLC records 8 copies, 6 in the USA: NY Acad of Med; Yale (2); LC; NLM; Coll of Physicians of Phila. Schumacher was a Facharzt für innere Krankheiten.
Includes papers by E. H. Gombrich and Stillman Drake.
Alderotti (also known as Taddeo degli Alderotti or Taddeo Alderotto) taught medicine at Bologna from 1260 and reintroduced the practice of teaching medicine at the patient's bedside. "His Consilia contain clinical case studies, together with the physician's opinion, the preventive measures taken and the dietary and therapeutic treatment given. He was the first scholar of medicine to write medical literature of this kind, and he also wrote one of the first medical works in the vernacular, Sulla conservazione della salute, a kind of family medical encyclopaedia. In his Expositio in arduum aphorismorum Hippocratis volumen he described the experiments in comparative anatomy which he and others had performed" [http://www2.unibo.it/avl/english/biogr/bio2.htm—the University of Bologna's web site].
Born in Kostroma, Russia, as Pavel Gavrilovich, Vinogradov became Professor in the University of Moscow but his zeal for the spread of education brought him into conflict with the authorities, as a result of which he left Russia and settled in England, where he studied the social & economic conditions of early England, a subject that he had already taken up in Moscow. His Villainage in England is still perhaps the most important book written on the peasantry of the feudal age and the feudal community in England. In it he showed that the villein of Norman times was the direct descendant of the Anglo-Saxon freeman and that the typical Anglo-Saxon settlement was a free community, not a manor. In 1903 he was appointed Corpus Professor of Jurisprudence in the Universtiy of Oxford and subsequently became a Fellow of the British Academy.
The Renaissance Scottish Catholic humanist and philosopher Volusene published in Lyon in 1543 "the work on which his fame rests [this book] . . . In form this work is an imaginary conversation held in a garden on the heights of Fourvières overlooking Lyons, between the author and two friends. In substance it reminds one of 'The Consolation of Philosophy' of Boethius. Without being commonplace, it is full of sense, and at once reasonable and Christian. It seems to have had considerable popularity, and brought to its author well-deserved fame" [DNB XX: 389-90]. Subsequent editions were issued in 1637, 1642, 1707, and this last edition in 1751. The editions of 1637, 1707, and 1751 are all prefixed by a brief anonymous life, which the DNB informs us was actually written by Thomas Wilson, who also called himself "Volusenus." Volusene—whose birth name may have been "Wilson," "Wolson," or "Wolsey"—signed his name in his English letters "Volusene" or "Volusenus." Volusene's philosophy is Christian and biblical rather than classical or scholastic. He takes a fresh and independent view of Christian ethics, and he ultimately reaches a doctrine as to the witness of the Spirit and the assurance of grace which breaks with the traditional Christianity of his time and is based on ethical motives akin to those of the German Reformers" [Britannica 11th edition, article on Volusenus].
GM-5 6520.
First collected edition of Weyer's works. Includes the text of the 1583 (6th and last) edition of the epochal De Praestigiis Daemonum, Liber Apologeticus, & Pseudomonarchia Daemonum; De Lamiis, De Ira Morbo, & Observationes Medicae Rariores. On everyone's list of great psychiatric books, Weyer's De Praestigiis (just now translated into English) is "the most celebrated of all books exposing the witchcraft delusion" [p. 539 in Robbins 1959]. Weyer "pleaded for medical treatment of the mentally ill and suggested that the confessions of the so-called witches were nothing more than reports of visual and auditory hallucinations experienced under the influence of some drugs. With skill and sympathy, he described the symptoms of schizophrenia, the phenomena of mass hysteria, the paranoia of homosexuals, and the significance of agitation recurring yearly on the same date." [Howells 1984 p. 976]. Laehr I, 291. Caillet III, 11430, Heirs of Hippocrates, 302
Norbert Wiener's father was Professor of Slavic Languages at Harvard.
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