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Raggetti, Lucia, "The ‘Science of Properties' and its Transmission", dins: Johnson, J. Cale (ed.), In the Wake of the Compendia: How Technical Handbooks Reshape Early Mesopotamian Empiricism, Boston-Berlin, De Gruyter, 2015, pp. 159-176.
- Resum
- This paper looks at Arabic compendia stemming from the Abbasid periodthat group together the properties associated with particular natural objects. This‘science of properties' usually gathered together all of the known properties of, say,the body parts and secreta of a single animal within a chapter. The materials inthese compendia were often labeled as
manāfiʿ
or
ḫawāṣṣ
, terms that describe the‘properties' of natural objects and can be differentiated on the basis of the relativetransparency of the causal mechanisms underlying a given property. Other labelsdescribe a particular entry as ‘tried' or ‘tested', while two different comments thatcan be translated as ‘astonishing' and ‘strange' appear in a number of manuscriptsas yet another way of qualifying individual entries. These different labels, in com-bination with the reorganization of compendia along new lines, were the primarymeans through which editors could comment of the reliability of particular entries.The paper concludes with a description of the compendia assembled by ibn Zuhr,who developed a set of sigla for assigning individual entries to a specific author.These different types of labels speak not only to questions of effectiveness andunderlying models of causation, but also to the nature of authorship within theArabic compendial tradition
- Matèries
- Àrab
Filosofia - Filosofia natural Història natural
- URL
- https://www.academia.edu/18918633/The_Science_of_Pr ...
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