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Title: 1586 RENAISSANCE EDITION OF GALEN antique FOLIO 16th century FAMOUS MEDICAL WORK

Description: RENAISSANCE EDITION OF GALEN
CLAUDIUS GALENUS
Galeni Opera Librorum Secunda (-Tertia) Classis materiam sanitatis conservaticem tradit
...sexta hac nostra editione...
Venetiis: Apud Iuntas (Venice: heirs of Luca Antonio Giunti) ; 1586
(Latin translation published by heirs of Luca Antonio Giunti)
2 volumes bound together (Librorum Secundae and Librorum Tertia Classis)
Few in-text illustrations
Folio: 10 by 14 1/8"
Original leather boards, rebacked, new spine used part of original one.
Red edges.
Two title pages, each bordered by woodcuts showing scenes from Galen's life
With historiated initials, head- and tail-pieces.
Latin translation of Galen's collected works, published by the heirs of Venetian printer Lucantonio Giunti, whose printer's device appears on the title pages and last pages.
Leaves are crisp and clean, very good interior condition except some spot to the upper margin
Text in Latin

LUCANTONIO GIUNTI (1457 -1538) was a Florentine book publisher and printer, active in Venice from 1489, a member of the Giunti family of printers. His publishing business was successful, and among the most important in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Some thirty members of the family became printers or booksellers. In Venice the Giunti press was the most active publisher and exporter of liturgical texts in Catholic Europe.

GALEN [Galen of Pergamon] (129 - circa 216) was a physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic. Galen may have produced more work than any author in antiquity. So profuse was Galen's output that the surviving texts represent nearly half of all the extant literature from ancient Greece. Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism (also known as the theory of the four humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm), as advanced by ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates. Galen's views dominated and influenced Western medical science for more than 1,300 years. His anatomical reports remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published by Andreas Vesalius. Galen's original Greek texts gained renewed prominence during the early modern period. In the 1530s, Belgian anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius took on a project to translate many of Galen's Greek texts into Latin. Vesalius's most famous work, De humani corporis fabrica, was greatly influenced by Galenic writing and form. 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.

Text in Latin

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1586 RENAISSANCE EDITION OF GALEN antique FOLIO 16th century FAMOUS MEDICAL WORK

Name: 1586 RENAISSANCE EDITION OF GALEN antique FOLIO 16th century FAMOUS MEDICAL WORK
SKU: 225806696
Price: 500 USD
Availability: InStock