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Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500
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Full Title:
Avicenna in Renaissance Italy: The Canon and Medical Teaching in Italian Universities after 1500
Contributors:
By (Author) Nancy G. Siraisi
Series:
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Imprint:
Princeton University Press
Publication Date:
23rd September 2014
Country:
United States
Classifications
Readership:
Tertiary Education
Genre:
Fiction/Non-fiction:
Non Fiction
Main Subject:
Other Subjects:
History of education
Dewey:
610.71145
Physical Properties
Physical Format:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
432
Dimensions:
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
Weight:
595g
Description
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 especi
