The Leiden Dioscorides
Author | : Mahmoud Mohamed Sadek (studie over Dioscorides.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1290 |
Release | : 1969 |
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ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mahmoud Mohamed Sadek (studie over Dioscorides.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1290 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mahmoud Mohamed Sadek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1290 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mahmoud Mohamed Sadek |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 645 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Mahmoud Mohamed Sadek |
Publisher | : St-Jean-Chrysostome, Québec : Éditions du Sphinx |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Illumination of books and manuscripts, Arab |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Pedanius Dioscorides |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 630 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Botany, Medical |
ISBN | : 9783487147192 |
Author | : Sarah R. Kyle |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-08-12 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1351997793 |
"The Carrara Herbal is an exceptional illustrated book of materia medica (therapeutic substances drawn from plants, animals and minerals). It is exceptional in both its illustrations and its content, making it of interest to historians of art and medicine alike. The Herbal contains a translation into Paduan dialect of a Latin version of the mid-thirteenth-century Arabic pharmacopeia, Kitab al-Adwiya al-mufrada (The Book of Simple Medicines), written by Ibn Sarabi, a Christian physician working in al-Andalus and known in the Latin West as Serapion the Younger."--Introduction.
Author | : Brian W. Ogilvie |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2008-09-15 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0226620867 |
Out of the diverse traditions of medical humanism, classical philology, and natural philosophy, Renaissance naturalists created a new science devoted to discovering and describing plants and animals. Drawing on published natural histories, manuscript correspondence, garden plans, travelogues, watercolors, and drawings, The Science of Describing reconstructs the evolution of this discipline of description through four generations of naturalists. In the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, naturalists focused on understanding ancient and medieval descriptions of the natural world, but by the mid-sixteenth century naturalists turned toward distinguishing and cataloguing new plant and animal species. To do so, they developed new techniques of observing and recording, created botanical gardens and herbaria, and exchanged correspondence and specimens within an international community. By the early seventeenth century, naturalists began the daunting task of sorting through the wealth of information they had accumulated, putting a new emphasis on taxonomy and classification. Illustrated with woodcuts, engravings, and photographs, The Science of Describing is the first broad interpretation of Renaissance natural history in more than a generation and will appeal widely to an interdisciplinary audience.
Author | : Gulru Necipogulu |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004116696 |
Author | : John M. Riddle |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 1986-01-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0292729847 |
For 1,600 years Dioscorides (ca. AD 40–80) was regarded as the foremost authority on drugs. He knew mild laxatives and strong purgatives, analgesics for headaches, antiseptics for wounds, emetics to rid one of ingested poisons, chemotherapy agents for cancer treatments, and even oral contraceptives. Why, then, have his works remained obscure in recent centuries? Because of one small oversight (Dioscorides himself thought it was self-evident): he failed to describe his method for organizing drugs by their affinities. This omission led medical authorities to use his materials as a guide to pharmacy while overlooking Dioscorides' most valuable contribution—his empirically derived method for observing and classifying drugs by clinical testing. Dioscorides' De materia medica, a five-volume work, was written in the first century. Here revealed for the first time is the thesis that Dioscorides wrote more than a lengthy guide book. He wrote a great work of science. He had said that he discovered the natural order and would demonstrate it by his arrangement of drugs from plants, minerals, and animals. Until John M. Riddle's pathfinding study, no one saw the genius of his system. Botanists from the eighteenth century often attempted to find his unexplained method by identifying the sequences of his plants according to the Linnean system but, while there are certain patterns, there remained inexplicable incoherencies. However, Dioscorides' natural order as set down in De materia medica was determined by drug affinities as detected by his acute, clinical ability to observe drug reactions in and on the body. So remarkable was his ability to see relationships that, in some cases, he saw what we know to be common chemicals shared by plants of the same and related species and other natural product drugs from animal and mineral sources. Western European and Islamic medicine considered Dioscorides the foremost authority on drugs, just as Hippocrates is regarded as the Father of Medicine. They saw him point the way but only described the end of his finger, despite the fact that in the sixteenth century alone there were over one hundred books published on him. If he had explained what he thought to be self-evident, then science, especially chemistry and medicine, would almost certainly have developed differently. In this culmination of over twenty years of research, Riddle employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.
Author | : Jacco Dieleman |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2005-05-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9047406745 |
This study of two related Demotic-Greek magical handbooks provides new information about the interaction between native Egyptian priests and the Hellenized elite of Roman-period Egypt through a careful analysis language interference, textual layout, religious imagery and ritual techniques.