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- Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus
- Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Texts, Translations, and Transliterations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Plato’s Timaeus as Universal Text
- Chapter 1 Galen and the ‘Medical’ Timaeus
- Chapter 2 From the Heavens to the Body: Ḥunayn’s Ophthalmology
- Chapter 3 Al-Rāzī: The ‘Arab Galen’ and his Plato, New Disciplinary Ideals
- Chapter 4 Laying Down the Law: Avicenna and his Medical Project
- Chapter 5 Uprooting the Timaeus: Maimonides and the Re-medicalization of Galenism
- Conclusion: Medicine Disciplined
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
Index Locorum
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 October 2020
- Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus
- Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato’s Timaeus
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Texts, Translations, and Transliterations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction: Plato’s Timaeus as Universal Text
- Chapter 1 Galen and the ‘Medical’ Timaeus
- Chapter 2 From the Heavens to the Body: Ḥunayn’s Ophthalmology
- Chapter 3 Al-Rāzī: The ‘Arab Galen’ and his Plato, New Disciplinary Ideals
- Chapter 4 Laying Down the Law: Avicenna and his Medical Project
- Chapter 5 Uprooting the Timaeus: Maimonides and the Re-medicalization of Galenism
- Conclusion: Medicine Disciplined
- References
- Index Locorum
- General Index
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- Galen and the Arabic Reception of Plato's Timaeus , pp. 235 - 239Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020