TY - JOUR
T1 - Aristotle in the medical works of arnau de vilanova (c. 1240-1311)
AU - Grau Torras, Sergi
PY - 2014/7/29
Y1 - 2014/7/29
N2 - © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon - the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconcile him with the field of medicine as practiced in his time. In so going, he defined a new theoretical model of medicine by the standards of natural philosophy, while continuing to emphasize the boundaries between medicine and natural philosophy. This paper represents to a first attempt to investigate the Aristotelian quotations in the medical writings of Arnau de Vilanova.
AB - © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands. Arnau de Vilanova, one of the most important physicians of the Latin Middle Ages, was familiar with the vast majority of Aristotle's works that had been translated into Latin. He used a wide range of them, such as the Organon - the introductory books on logic - and the natural philosophical books, which cover a different branches of knowledge. He used Aristotle as an authority, trying to reconcile him with the field of medicine as practiced in his time. In so going, he defined a new theoretical model of medicine by the standards of natural philosophy, while continuing to emphasize the boundaries between medicine and natural philosophy. This paper represents to a first attempt to investigate the Aristotelian quotations in the medical writings of Arnau de Vilanova.
KW - history of medicine
KW - Arnau de Vilanova
KW - Aristotle
KW - Medicine and literary topics
UR - http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/15733823-00193p02;jsessionid=ho0v6x4dc9fp.x-brill-live-02
U2 - 10.1163/15733823-00193p02
DO - 10.1163/15733823-00193p02
M3 - Article
VL - 19
SP - 236
EP - 257
JO - Early Science and Medicine
JF - Early Science and Medicine
SN - 1383-7427
IS - 3
ER -