Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500

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Published:
Apr 19, 2016
1987
Pages:
432
Size:
6 x 9 in.

The Canon of Avicenna, one of the principal texts of Arabic origin to be assimilated into the medical learning of medieval Europe, retained importance in Renaissance and early modern European medicine. After surveying the medieval reception of the book, Nancy Siraisi focuses on the Canon in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Italy, and especially on its role in the university teaching of philosophy of medicine and physiological theory.

Originally published in 1987.

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