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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.
Although the inspiration for Galen's Peri Alypias was the fire of Rome in 192 AD and the loss of many of Galen's books, the genre of writing on the prevention and cures of grief date back to 5th century BC Greece with Antiphon the Sophist's Peri Alypias, as described by Plutarch. [4]
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 ...
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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]
The novel is a reinterpretation of Herman Melville's classic book Moby Dick now set in the world of Dragonlance. Shadow of the Flame: Chris Pierson: June 2007: ISBN 0-7869-4254-1: Taladas: Dragons of the Highlord Skies: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman: July 2007: ISBN 0-7869-4860-4: The Chronicles: The Lost Chronicles Trilogy: The Rebellion ...