Substance, Element, Quality, Mixture: Galen’s Physics and His Hippocratic Inheritance
Galen insists that Hippocrates, in Nature of Man, adopts and argues for a physics in which not only the four fundamental qualities, hot, cold, dry and wet, but also the four basic elements, are taken to be fundamental to the constitution of all material things. He does so because he thinks that such...
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| Language: | English |
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ENS Éditions
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Aitia : Regards sur la Culture Hellénistique au XXIe Siècle |
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| Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/aitia/1863 |