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Darrera modificació: 2020-09-16
Bases de dades: Sciència.cat
Galeno, As faculdades dos alimentos. Livro I (De alimentorum facultatibus I), Traducción del griego, estudio y notas de Nelson Henrique da Silva Ferreira, con revisión de la terminología botánica de Jorge Paiva, Coimbra, Universidad de Coimbra (Diaita: Scripta & Realia, 12), 2020, 214 pp.
- Resum
- The present book offers the first translation into Portuguese of the book I of one of the most relevant works of Galen of Pergamon. This treaty on the properties of food presents a general view on the knowledge of Galen on natural sciences, more precisely, his medical expertise and the empirical knowledge on the properties of food and physiology. When approaching the nature of things, Galen of Pergamon tends to use an analytic process based on the relation between different elements interacting in a particular system. With respect to ancient eating habits and health, this way of collecting information and formulating hypotheses has a kind of potential for generating hierarchies and is attested to in De alimentorum facultatibus I, in which foodstuffs are evaluated considering the particular result expected on a subject 's metabolism. In sum, this work is a paradigm of Galen's science and may explain by itself the impact of Galen in modern science.
This book includes a translation of De alimentorum facultatibus I, a brief introduction to the context of Galen's intellectual production and a study on the ancient text and the information it brings regarding the knowledge of ancient scholars on physiology and the properties of food.
- Matèries
- Alimentació
Traducció
Medicina - Dietètica i higiene
- URL
- http://monographs.uc.pt/iuc/catalog/book/97
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