The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power.

  • D'Arcy Power
Date:
1931
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Credit: The foundations of medical history / by Sir D'Arcy Power. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Item Alexandri Aphrodisei super questionibus nonnuilis Physi- cis solutionum Liber-Angelo Politiano interprete.1 Incipit: Omnes homines naturaliter scire desiderant ut scribit Aristoteles, Princeps Philosophorum. Explicit: ex pluribus artificialibus codicibus Problemata colli- gere. The book is in the University Library at Cambridge England, under the reference U*.B. 167 (G). It appeared in London twenty years later when George Bishop published in 1583: Problemata Aristotelis ac Philosophorum medicorum com- plurium; Marci Antonii Zimarae Sanctipetrinatis Problemata, una cum trecentis Aristotelis Auerrois Propositionibus. Item Alexandri Aphrodisei super questionibus nonnuilis Physicis Solutionum Liber, Angelo Politiano interprete. This little 24 mo. of 287 pages was evidently success¬ ful and “filled a want” as the booksellers say, for it was translated into English and was published in London as an octavo in 1595 by “ye Widow Or- win” under the title The Problems of Aristotle with other Philosophers and Physitians, and in the same year it appeared in Edinburgh. A. Hatfield also published 1 Angelo de Ambroginis Poliziano (1454-1494) was well known as an Italian humanist. We are told that he was atrociously ugly with a huge nose and great goggle eyes which nearly touched each other, but as soon as he began to speak he carried away his audience and they forgot his personal appearance.
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