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used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Placita
Aetius; Edited by Jaap Mansfeld, David Runia
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R747
Discovery Miles 7 470
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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An ancient compendium of ancient philosophy. Placita (Tenets),
generally attributed to an author named Aëtius and dating from the
late first or early second century AD, was a compendium setting out
in summary fashion the principal doctrines and opinions of
philosophers and philosophical schools in response to questions and
topics in the domain of natural philosophy. Now lost, Placita can
be largely reconstructed from the work of three authors working in
the period from the second to the fifth century (Pseudo-Plutarch,
Stobaeus, and Theodoret) who quote from it extensively. Placita is
organized into five books: First Principles; Cosmology; Meteorology
and the Earth; Psychology; and Physiology. Each chapter contains a
list of short opinions or tenets, which are ascribed to an
individual philosopher and/or school and usually arranged in
sections that stress the variety and contrast of the teachings
concerned. Designed as a multi-purpose resource, Placita long
served as a manual of neatly packaged doxographic material on a
wide variety of topics, to be used for study, as an aide-mémoire,
for displays of erudition, for persuasion in rhetorical or
apologetic contexts, and for personal enlightenment, and it remains
a valuable source for our knowledge of Presocratic and Hellenistic
philosophy. This edition of Aëtius’ Placita offers a fresh
translation, ample annotation, and a text fully informed by the
latest scholarship.
Dr. Max Wegscheider hat in vorliegendem Werk das Lehrbuch aus der
Mitte des 6. Jahrhunderts ins Deutsche ubersetzt. Fur den
interessierten Leser auch heute noch eine informative Lekture uber
die Medizin der Vergangenheit. Dieses Buch ist ein Nachdruck der
langst vergriffenen Originalausgabe von 1901.
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