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SCIENCE AND THE SCIENCES IN PLATO

By: Anton, John P. (Ed. )

Price: $100.00 USD

Publisher: Eidos / Caravan Books: 1980

Seller ID: 6208

ISBN: 0882063014

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Former scholar's name on ffep (David Furley) with his blindstamp to fep. Pencil marginalia by Furley on a few pages. ; Contents: Gregory Vlastos: The role of Observation in Plato's Conception of Astronomy; Alexander P. D. Mourelatos: Plato's "Real Astronomy" Republic VII. 527D-531D; Robert G. Turnbull: The Later Platonic Concept of Scientific Explanation; Ian Mueller: Ascending to Problems: Astronomy and Harmonics in Republic VII. ; 127 pages; Collective contribution of four essays to the restoration of Plato's place in the history of scientific thought.
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ARATUS: PHAENOMENA Edited with Introduction, Translation and Commentary

By: Aratus; Douglas Kidd

Price: $240.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1997

Seller ID: 32260

ISBN: 052158230X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Minor foxing to top of textblock. From the Library of G. P. Goold. DJ has 2 small tears to lower edge. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 34; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 616 pages
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ARATI [ARATUS] PHAENOMENA Recensuit Et Fontium Testimoniorumque Notis Prolegomenis Indicibus Instruxit Ernestus Maass. Editio Secunda Lucis Ope Expressa

By: Aratus; Ernestus [Ernst] Maass (Ed. )

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung: 1955

Seller ID: 30945

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good-

Some pages unopened. Crease through upper corners of pages. Tear to base of spine (~1cm) with crease. Very light pencilling to a couple of pages. ; Xxxvi + 99 pp. Greek text with Latin introduction and apparatus. ; 101 pages
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ARATI [ARATUS] PHAENOMENA Recensuit Et Fontium Testimoniorumque Notis Prolegomenis Indicibus Instruxit Ernestus Maass. Editio Tertia Lucis Ope Expressa

By: Aratus; Ernst [Ernestus] Maass (Ed. )

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung / Apud Weidmannos: 1964

Seller ID: 9422

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Spine is slightly browned and rubbed (effacing some of the lettering). First few pages have creasing to top corners. ; Xxxvi + 101 pp. Greek text with Latin introduction and apparatus. ; 101 pages
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ARATI [ARATUS] PHAENOMENA Recensuit Et Fontium Testimoniorumque Notis Prolegomenis Indicibus Instruxit Ernestus Maass. Editio Tertia Lucis Ope Expressa

By: Aratus; Ernst [Ernestus] Maass (Ed. )

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung / Apud Weidmannos: 1964

Seller ID: 32258

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Wraps have some browning. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Xxxvi + 101 pp. Greek text with Latin introduction and apparatus. ; 101 pages
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ARISTOTE: LES PARTIES DES ANIMAUX. Texte tabli Et Traduit

By: Aristote (Aristotle) ; Pierre Louis

Price: $35.00 USD

Publisher: Socit D'dition `les Belles Lettres': 1956

Seller ID: 28215

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Good

Tears to spine cover now crudely repaired with cellotape. Some pencil marginalia and underlining. ; Parallel text in French and Greek. ; Collection Des Universits De France. Association Guillaume Bud; 193 pages
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THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH Vol. VII: Problemata

By: Aristotle; W. D. Ross (Ed. ) ; E. S. Forster (Trans. )

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1927

Seller ID: 31607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Minor shelfwear. Front hinge just starting to crack. ; Volume 7 Only. ; Vol. 7; 8vo
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ARISTOTLE ON THE PARTS OF ANIMALS Translated, with an Introduction and Notes

By: Aristotle; W. Ogle

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: NY, Garland Publishing: 1987

Seller ID: 21116

ISBN: 0824069250

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine

Reprint of the 1882 London ed. xxxiii, 263pp.; Greek & Roman Philosophy Volume 26; 263 pages
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THE WORKS OF ARISTOTLE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH Volume V: De Partibus Animalium by William Ogle; De Motu and De Incessu Animalium by A. S. L. Farquharson; De Generatione Animalium by Arthur Platt

By: Aristotle; William Ogle, A. S. L. Farquharson & Arthur Platt (Under General editorship Of J. A. Smith & W. D. Ross)

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford, Oxford At the Clarendon Press: 1972

Seller ID: 31601

ISBN: 0198242050

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Pages tanned. DJ spine is slightly browned. DJ is price-clipped. ; Volume 5 ONLY. ; Vol. 5
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EPICURUS' SCIENTIFIC METHOD

By: Asmis, Elizabeth

Price: $315.00 USD

Publisher: Cornell University Press: 1984

Seller ID: 19381

ISBN: 0801414652

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Good+ dust jacket

Light pencilling to a few pages. Scholar's blindstamp and name to ffep (Robert Brown). DJ has a couple of small tears and light chipping. DJ has a bit of creasing. ; Cornell Studies in Classical Philology; 400 pages
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MEDICAL CARE FOR THE ROMAN ARMY ON THE RHINE, DANUBE AND BRITISH FRONTIERS IN THE FIRST, SECOND AND EARLY THIRD CENTURIES AD

By: Baker, Patricia Anne

Price: $160.00 USD

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports: 2004

Seller ID: 6630

ISBN: 1841713783

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Fine

British Archaeological Reports BAR International Series 1286; 204 pages; This detailed study of military medical practice on the western frontiers of the Roman army aims to discover whether legionary and auxilliary units were treated differently, whether local civilians were also treated by military doctors and if the soldier's location impacted on his medical treatment. At the heart of this wide-ranging study is an analysis of medical instruments discovered at frontier sites, such as Housesteads, Wallsend, Carnuntum, Caerleon, Xanten, Mainz and many others. Patricia Anne Baker examines the sc...
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GURISONS DU CORPS ET DE L'ME Approches Pluridisciplinaires

By: Boulhol, Pascal & Francoise Gaide & Mireille Loubet (Eds. )

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Publications De L'Universit De Provence: 2006

Seller ID: 25408

ISBN: 2853996514

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+

Light shelfwear. Minor crease to upper corner of front wrap. ; Cette ouvrage regroupe les actes du colloque organis en septembre 2004 la Maison mditerranenne des sciences de lhomme (MMSH) dAix-en-Provence. Il regroupe des textes chercheurs franais et trangers aux approches pluridisciplinaires : mdecine, philosophie, religion, littrature, arts, sociologie, anthropologie; Textes Et Documents De La Mditerrane Antique Et Mdivale; 364 pages
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GALEN ON BLOODLETTING A Study of the Origins, Development and Validity of his Opinions, with a Translation of the Three Works

By: Brain, Peter

Price: $140.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1986

Seller ID: 6756

ISBN: 0521320852

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

202 pages; For more than two thousand years, almost all doctors in the West used bloodletting to treat a great variety of diseases and conditions. In an attempt to find out why they acted thus, Dr Brain has translated the three works on bloodletting by the second-century physician Galen, which provide by far the most comprehensive account of the practice in antiquity. This is the first published version of these works in a modern language. After a brief summary of Galen's medical system, the author goes on to consider the origins of Galen's ideas and methods, with particular reference to the H...
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CODEX CONSTANTINOPOLITANUS: PALATII VETERIS NO. 1 [3 VOLUME SET] Part 1: Reproduction of the Manuscript; Part 2: Greek Text; Part 3: Translation and Commentary

By: Bruins, E. M. (Ed. )

Price: $735.00 USD

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1964

Seller ID: 5473

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Overall set is in Near Fine to Fine condition. Part One has slight scuffing to boards and very light foxing and slightly bowed boards. Parts 2 & 3 are in Fine Condition. ; Contains Metrica of Hero / Heron of Alexandria with text, reproduction of the manuscript, scholia and commentaries. ; Janus Supplements; Contains a facsimile of the manuscript and Greek text + translation and commentary of this text on Geometry
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CODEX CONSTANTINOPOLITANUS: PALATII VETERIS NO. 1 [3 VOLUME SET] Part 1: Reproduction of the Manuscript; Part 2: Greek Text; Part 3: Translation and Commentary

By: Bruins, E. M. (Ed. )

Price: $735.00 USD

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1964

Seller ID: 6037

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Overall set is in Fine condition. Very minor scuffing. ; Contains Metrica of Hero / Heron of Alexandria with text, reproduction of the manuscript, scholia and commentaries. ; Janus Supplements; Contains a facsimile of the manuscript and Greek text + translation and commentary of this text on Geometry
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CODEX CONSTANTINOPOLITANUS: PALATII VETERIS NO. 1 [3 VOLUME SET] Part 1: Reproduction of the Manuscript; Part 2: Greek Text; Part 3: Translation and Commentary

By: Bruins, E. M. (Ed. )

Price: $735.00 USD

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1964

Seller ID: 28323

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Light Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner covers (G. P. Goold). ; Contains Metrica of Hero / Heron of Alexandria with text, reproduction of the manuscript, scholia and commentaries. ; Janus Supplements; Contains a facsimile of the manuscript and Greek text + translation and commentary of this text on Geometry
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ARCHEOZOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK LANGS DE MIDDEN-EUFRAAT Onderzoek Van Het Faunamateriaal Uit Zes Nederzettingen in Zuidoost-Turkije En Noord-Syri Daterend Van Ca. 10.000 BP Tot 1400 AD.

By: Buitenhuis, H.

Price: $60.00 USD

Publisher: Groningen: 1988

Seller ID: 5504

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine

Minor scuffing to back wrap else fine. ; 70 text-figures & 118 tables. Page count: 213, 22 & 26. Text is in Dutch. ; Proefschrift (Diss. )
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CREATION OF THE SACRED Tracks of Biology in Early Religions

By: Burkert, Walter

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press: 1998

Seller ID: 33572

ISBN: 0674175700

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Dustjacket has edgewear with light chipping and 1 small closed tears. Scholars' bookplate to inner cover else Fine. ; 272 pages; Sacrifice--ranging from the sacrifice of virgins to circumcision to giving up what is most valued--is essential to all religions. Could there be a natural, even biological, reason for these practices? Something that might explain why religions of so many different cultures share so many rituals and concepts? In this extraordinary book, one of the world's leading authorities on ancient religions explores the possibility of natural religion--a religious sense and pract...
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CAELIUS AURELIANUS: GYNAECIA Fragments of a Latin Version of Soranus' Gynaecia from a Thirteenth Century Manuscript

By: Caelius Aurelianus; Miriam F. Drabkin & Israel E. Drabkin (Eds. )

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: John Hopkins University Press: 1951

Seller ID: 29649

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine a bit browned along with edges of wraps. 2 cm tear to base osf spine. Chipping along foreedge of front wrap. ; Caelius Aurelianus (fl. 5th century CE) was a Roman physician and writer on medical topics, of Sicca in Numidia. He is best known for his translation from Greek to Latin of a work by Soranus, On Acute and Chronic Diseases. He probably flourished in the 5th century, although some place him two or even three centuries earlier. ; Supplements to the Bulletin of the History of Medicine No. 13; 136 pages
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PAPERS OF THE LANGFORD LATIN SEMINAR, FOURTEENTH VOLUME 2010 Health and Sickness in Ancient Rome. Greek and Roman Poetry and Historiography

By: Cairns, Francis & Miriam Griffin (Eds. )

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Francis Cairns Publications: 2010

Seller ID: 8410

ISBN: 0905205537

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

ARCA Classical and Medieval Texts, Papers and Monographs 50; 393 pages; Papers of the Langford Latin Seminar 14 contains (in revised, usually enlarged, and annotated form) papers presented at Langford Seminars of the Department of Classics of The Florida State University over the years 2004 to 2008, together with supplementary articles contributed at the request of the editors. Galen in Context (Vivian Nutton, The Wellcome Centre for the History of Medicine, University College London) Pliny and the Pathologies of Empire (Rebecca Flemming, Jesus College, Cambridge) Community Health: Metaphors i...
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CELSUS: DE MEDICINA III [On Medicine, Vol. 3]

By: Celsus; W. G. Spencer (Trans. )

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press & William Heinemann: 1961

Seller ID: 19315

ISBN: 0674993705

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Light bumping to top of spine. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Loeb Classical Library No. 336; Vol. 3; 368 pages;

A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (1437 CE), of a general encyclopaedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the 8 books on medicine (De Medicina). Book I: after an excellent survey of Greek schools (Dogmatic, Methodic, ...
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CELSUS: DE MEDICINA II [On Medicine, Vol. 2] Books 5-6

By: Celsus; W. G. Spencer (Trans. )

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press & William Heinemann: 1938

Seller ID: 31406

ISBN: 0674993357

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Traces of removed ex-library markings. Oval gilt stamp to front board (Stuttaford Collection). Spine sunned. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 304; Vol. 2; 368 pages
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CELSUS: DE MEDICINA III [On Medicine, Vol. 3]

By: Celsus; W. G. Spencer (Trans. )

Price: $16.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press & William Heinemann: 1938

Seller ID: 31405

ISBN: 0674993705

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good with no dust jacket

CELSUS: DE MEDICINA I [On Medicine, Vol. 1] Books I-IV

By: Celsus; W. G. Spencer (Trans. )

Price: $17.00 USD

Publisher: Harvard University Press & William Heinemann: 1960

Seller ID: 31407

ISBN: 0674993225

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ is price-clipped. DJ spine sunned. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 292; Vol. 1; 512 pages
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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN MASONRY The Building Craft

By: Clarke, Somers & R. Engelbach

Price: $350.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford: 1930

Seller ID: 4207

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good+ with no dust jacket

Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Top corner slightly bumped. Rubbing to boards and extremities. ; A scarce and important work on the problems of stone construction in Ancient Egypt. ; 242 pages
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CLEOMEDES' LECTURES ON ASTRONOMY A Translation of the Heavens

By: Cleomedes; Todd, Robert B. & Alan C. Bowen

Price: $48.00 USD

Publisher: University of California Press: 2004

Seller ID: 2737

ISBN: 0520233255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Fine dust jacket

Hellenistic Culture and Society; 0.88 x 9.26 x 6.44 Inches; 254 pages; At some time around 200 A. D. , the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was The Heavens (Caelestia) , the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact from the first two centuries A. D. , and a rare example of the interaction between science and philosophy in late antiquity. This volume contains a clear and idiomatic English translation--the first ever--of The Heavens, along with...
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LE LAURIUM ANTIQUE Et La Technique Grecque De La Production De L'Argent

By: Conophagos, Constantin E.

Price: $385.00 USD

Publisher: Ekdotike Hellados: 1980

Seller ID: 15133

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket

Gift inscription from author to J. F. Healy in black marker on half-title. Minor waviness to first 3 pages. Minor bumping to corners. Rear endpapers have small chips to foreedges. DJ spine is sunned and discolored. DJ has tears (some open with some loss) and chipping. ; 3 large loose folded maps in pocket at rear. ; 458 pages; Signed by Author
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NICHOLAS COPERNICUS COMPLETE WORKS I: THE MANUSCRIPT OF NICHOLAS COPERNICUS' ON THE REVOLUTIONS. FACSIMILE [De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium - a Limited Facsimile Edition for the Five Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth]

By: Copernicus, Nicolaus & Pawel Czartoryski & Zygmunt Nierada & Erna Hilfstein

Price: $160.00 USD

Publisher: MacMillan and Polish Scientific Publishers: 1982

Seller ID: 32029

ISBN: 0333140346

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

DJ has some browning especillay to spine with some rubbing. Small faint dampstain to DJ spine. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Faint foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. ; De Revolutionibus Orbius Coelestium. A limited edition of 1500 Copies; Polish Academy of Science; Folio 13" - 23" tall
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L'AVNEMENT DE LA SCIENCE PHYSIQUE Essai Sur La Physique D'Aristote

By: Couloubaritsis, Lambros

Price: $95.00 USD

Publisher: Ousia: 1980

Seller ID: 6559

ISBN: 287060002X

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Scholar's name on ffep (David Furley) with his blindstamp. Includes note on ffep: "Gift of the author". ; 338 pages
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LINGUE TECNICHE DEL LATINO

By: De Meo, Cesidio

Price: $70.00 USD

Publisher: Ptron Editore: 1986

Seller ID: 26791

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Faint soiling and creasing to wraps. Gift inscription to ffep to R. E. Fantham from author. ; Testi E Manuali Per L'Insegnamento Universitario Del Latino; 16; 343 pages
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"PATIENCE, MON COEUR" L'Essor De La Psychologie Dans La Littrature Grecque Classique

By: De Romilly, Jacqueline

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Socit D'dition- Les Belles Lettres: 1984

Seller ID: 15163

ISBN: 225132626X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Gift inscription to half-title in pen from author. Slight spine slant. Minor shelfwear to book and DJ. ; Collection D'tudes Anciennes; 241 pages; Signed by Author
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"PATIENCE, MON COEUR" L'Essor De La Psychologie Dans La Littrature Grecque Classique

By: De Romilly, Jacqueline

Price: $67.00 USD

Publisher: Socit D'dition- Les Belles Lettres: 1984

Seller ID: 15723

ISBN: 225132626X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket

Minor shelfwear to book. DJ has light chipping and a few small tears. ; Collection D'tudes Anciennes; 241 pages
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WOMEN'S BODIES IN CLASSICAL GREEK SCIENCE

By: Dean-Jones, Lesley Ann

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1996

Seller ID: 25925

ISBN: 0198150466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good+

Light edgewear else fine. ; In this book, Dean-Jones gives a close analysis of theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that society. Many of the primary sources dealt with are not yet accessible in English, therefore, her book is important in assembling and presenting both original texts as well as her research on the texts....
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WOMEN'S BODIES IN CLASSICAL GREEK SCIENCE

By: Dean-Jones, Lesley Ann

Price: $25.00 USD

Publisher: Oxford Clarendon Press: 1996

Seller ID: 33486

ISBN: 0198150466

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Light shelfwear else fine. ; In this book, Dean-Jones gives a close analysis of theories concerning women's bodies in such authors as the Hippocratics and Aristotle. She demonstrates the centrality of menstruation in classical theories of female physiology, pathology, and reproduction, and suggests that this had both negative and positive repercussions in attitudes towards women's bodies in that society. Many of the primary sources dealt with are not yet accessible in English, therefore, her book is important in assembling and presenting both original texts as well as her research on the texts...
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MALADIE ET MALADIES DANS LES TEXTES LATINS ANTIQUES ET MDIVAUX Actes Du Ve Colloque International "Textes Mdicaux Latins" (Bruxelles, 4-6 Septembre 1995)

By: Deroux, Carl (Ed. )

Price: $170.00 USD

Publisher: Latomus: 1998

Seller ID: 15629

ISBN: 2870311826

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Pages unopened. Some minor creasing to front wrap and first few pages. Small chip to head of spine. ; Collection Latomus Volume 242; 458 pages
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MALADIE ET MALADIES DANS LES TEXTES LATINS ANTIQUES ET MDIVAUX Actes Du Ve Colloque International "Textes Mdicaux Latins" (Bruxelles, 4-6 Septembre 1995)

By: Deroux, Carl (Ed. )

Price: $180.00 USD

Publisher: Latomus: 1998

Seller ID: 15630

ISBN: 2870311826

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Near Fine

Pages unopened. Very minor shelfwear. Else fine. ; Collection Latomus Volume 242; 458 pages
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ENTRE ORIENT ET OCCIDENT: LA PHILOSOPHIE ET LA SCIENCE GRCO-ROMAINES DANS LE MONDE ARABE. Huit Exposs Suivis De Discussions Par Adamson, Peter/ Hugonnard-Roche, Henri/ De Smet, Daniel, D'Ancona, Cristina/ Eichner, Heidrun/ Orthmann, Eva/ Rudolph, Ulrich/ Boudon-Millot, Vronique.

By: Derron, Pascale & Richard Goulet & Ulrich Rudolph & Christoph Riedweg (Eds.0

Price: $97.00 USD

Publisher: Fondation Hardt: 2011

Seller ID: 28173

ISBN: 2600007571

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Very light shelfwear to DJ. ; Entretiens Sur L'Antiquit Classique Tome LVII; 406 pages
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EARLY GREEK ASTRONOMY TO ARISTOTLE

By: Dicks, D. R.

Price: $20.00 USD

Publisher: Thames and Hudson: 1970

Seller ID: 27284

ISBN: 050040013X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket

Slight browning to front panel of DJ. DJ is price-clipped. Light Dust-soiling to textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; Treats at length the contributions of Plato and Eudoxus to astronomical knowledge. Discusses the influence of babylonian and egyptian astronomy on the greeks, the origin of the constellations, and the part played by calendraic problems in the growth of scientific astronomy. Makes clear that the Greeks were first to explain the universe on a rational mathematical basis, and developed such essential tools as the celestial globe, planisphere, star map and...
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A HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY From Thales to Kepler

By: Dreyer, J. L. E. & (Foreword by W. H. Stahl)

Price: $27.00 USD

Publisher: Dover Publications: 1953

Seller ID: 31327

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Spine lettering effaced. Light bumping to corners. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). ; 438 pages
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MDECINE ANTIQUE IVe Colloque International Hippocratique

By: Ducrey, Pierre, Berard, C., et al

Price: $33.00 USD

Publisher: Lausanne, Muse Historique De L'Ancien-Evch: 1981

Seller ID: 22060

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Glue stains to inner front hinge. Minor shelfwear. Faint stain to rear wrap. ; 166pp, illustrated.; Universit De Lusanne, Facult Des Lettres. Section Des Sciences De L'Antiquit; 166 pages
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DAS ANTLITZ DER BLINDHEIT IN DER ANTIKE Die Kulturellen Und Medizinhistorischen Ausstrahlungen Des Blindenproblems in Den Antiken Quellen.

By: Esser, Albert

Price: $38.00 USD

Publisher: E. J. Brill: 1961

Seller ID: 25790

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very faint shelfwear. ; Janus Supplements 4; 192 pages
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ANTIKE MEDIZIN

By: Flashar, Hellmut (Hrsg. )

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: 1971

Seller ID: 17907

ISBN: 3534045041

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine with no dust jacket

Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Wege Der Forschung 221 (CCXXI) ; 525 pages
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WAS IST ,LEBEN'? Aristoteles Anschauungen Zur Entstehung Und Funktionsweise Von Leben. Akten Der Tagung Vom 23.-26. August 2006 in Bamberg

By: Follinger, Sabine

Price: $85.00 USD

Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag: 2010

Seller ID: 6717

ISBN: 3515092447

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine with no dust jacket

Philosophie Der Antike (Pha) Band 27; 432 pages; How did Aristotle, the founder of scientific biology, define life? In this volume, which collects the contributions to a conference held in 2006, philologists, philosophers and biologists approach this question. They study how Aristotles concept of the soul relates to his perception of life; how he evaluates the different criteria that, according to him, constitute life; how he uses those criteria to define different organic structures; whether there exists a unified definition of life in Aristotles philosophy; aspects of procreation and ontogen...
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I POLYSPASTOS Note Di Tecnologia Meccanica Antica E Altri Mezzi Di Sollevamento

By: Frau, Benvenuto

Price: $75.00 USD

Publisher: Gruppo Archeologico Romano: 1980

Seller ID: 5324

Binding: Softcover

Condition: Very Good

Former owner's name on front wrap. Spine lightly browned. ; Entire text written in Italian with illustrations. ; 84 pages
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ALADDIN'S LAMP How Greek Science Came to Europe Through the Islamic World

By: Freely, John

Price: $15.00 USD

Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf: 2009

Seller ID: 16717

ISBN: 030726534X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Aladdins Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B. C. And, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated the works of these Greek thinkers into Arabic, spreading their ideas throughout the Islamic world from Central Asia to Spain, with many Muslim scientists, mo...
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SCIENCE IN THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE Pliny the Elder, His Sources and Influence

By: French, Roger & Frank Greenaway (Eds. )

Price: $36.00 USD

Publisher: Croom Helm: 1986

Seller ID: 27911

ISBN: 0709910843

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good- in Very Good- dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Foxing to endpapers and DJ flaps (a bit heavy). Internally clean. ; 287 pages
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WOUNDING AND DEATH IN THE ILIAD Homeric Techniques of Description

By: Friedrich, Wolf-Harmut & (Trans. by Gabriele Wright & Peter Jones) & (Pref. by Peter Jones) & Appendix by K. B. Saunders

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Duckworth: 2003

Seller ID: 18776

ISBN: 0715629832

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket

Faint foxing to top of textblock else book is fine. Very light shelfwear to DJ. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; W. H. Friedrich's "Verwundung und Tod in Der Ilias", originally published in 1956, discusses in detail the plausibility (or otherwise) of the wounds received on the Homeric battlefield and is therefore of considerable interest to historians of medicine. It also makes a serious and sustained effort to grapple with the question of style, and thus confronts an issue which oral theory has scarcely touched. Peter Jones adds a preface briefly locating the work within the terms of oral ...
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THE GREEK COSMOLOGISTS. VOLUME I: The Formation of the Atomic Theory and its Earliest Critics

By: Furley, David

Price: $50.00 USD

Publisher: Cambridge University Press: 1987

Seller ID: 31894

ISBN: 0521333288

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket

Pages tanned. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). DJ spine a bit sunned. ; 9.0 X 6.1 X 0.9 inches; 232 pages
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GALEN: ON THE NATURAL FACULTIES With an English Translation

By: Galen; Arthur John Brock ( Trans. )

Price: $14.00 USD

Publisher: William Heinemann & G. P. Putnam's Sons: 1916

Seller ID: 28468

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good with no dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Pages tanned. Small chip to head of spine. ; Loeb Classical Library No. 71; 339 pages
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GEMINI [GEMINUS] ELEMENTA ASTRONOMIAE Ad Codicum Fidem Recensuit Germanica Interpretatione Et Commentarius Instruxit Carolus Manitius

By: Geminus; Carolus [Karl] Manitius (Ed. )

Price: $90.00 USD

Publisher: B. G. Teubner: 1974

Seller ID: 29211

ISBN: 351901386X

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good+ with no dust jacket

Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Spine slightly faded. ; Xliv, 370 pp ; Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum Et Romanorum Teubneriana TEUBNER; 370 pages
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