Facets

1991 CE

#8343

A Hellenistic treatise on poisonous animals (the "Theriaca" of Nicander of Colophon): A contribution to the history of toxicology.

"... the authors review all the ancient treatises, ranged in chronological order, that cite Nicander at greater or lesser length, from Celsus up to Paul of Aegina - not less than thirteen authors. . . . Next follows a…

1953 CE–1959 CE

#6450

A history of science. Vols. 1-2. (All published.)

1. Ancient science through the golden age of Greece. 2. Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.

2000 CE

#7976

A population history of the United States. Edited by Michael R. Haines and Richard H. Steckel.

From Pre-Columbian times to the present.

2002 CE

#11032

Abortion in the ancient world.

1832 CE

#8951

Aeliani de natura animalium libri septemdecim. Verba ad fidem librorum manuscriptorum constituit et annotationibus illustravit Fridericus Jacobs.

The first modern critical edition of the text, which collated medieval manuscripts against the previous printed editions. Digital facsimile of the 1832 edition from the Internet Archive at this link

2016 CE

#9599

Ancient botany.

1967 CE

#6485.3

Ancient medicine: Selected Papers of Ludwig Edelstein. Edited by Owsei Temkin and C. Lilian Temkin. Translations from the German by C. Lilian Temkin.

2004 CE

#6961

Ancient medicine.

Nutton used archaeological and written evidence to survey the development of medical ideas from early Greece to Late Antiquity.

2005 CE

#9983

Antike Medizin: Ein Lexikon.

1971 CE

#6485.5

Antike Medizin. Wege der Forschung ccxxi.

1981 CE

#7144

Aristotle and Michael of Ephesus on the movement and progression of animals, translated, with Introduction and notes by Anthony Preuss.

The Commentaria in de motu et de incessu animalium by the Byzantine writer Michael of Ephesus are the only surviving commentaries in Greek on Aristotle's De motu animalium and De incessu animalium. This edition provid…

2001 CE

#12145

Aristotle on life and death

2002 CE

#9076

Aristotle: Historia animalium. Volume 1, Books I-X: Text. Edited by D. M. Balme. Prepared for publication by Allan Gotthelf.

Critical edition based on a collation of the 26 known extant manuscripts and a study of the early Latin translations. Begun by Balme in 1975, with his work towards the Loeb editio minor of books VII–X, this edit…

2002 CE

#9078

Aristotle: On the parts of the animals I-IV. Translated with commentary by James G. Lennox.

1495 CE–1498 CE

#8395

Aristotle. [Opera omnia]. 5 vols.

Between November 1495 and June 1498 scholar printer Aldus Manutius (Teobaldo Mannucci) of Venice issued the first edition in the original Greek of Aristotle's Opera omnia. The set appeared in five thick quarto or smal…

1996 CE

#9757

Baths and bathing in classical antiquity.

Reviews and analyzes the structure, function, and design of baths, seeking to integrate their architecture with the wider social and cultural custom of bathing, and examining in particular the changes this custom unde…

1544 CE

#4406.1

Chirurgia e graeco in latinum conversa.

This elegantly printed and illustrated small folio included 210 text woodcuts, most probably after drawings by the school of Francesco Salviati (Francesco de'Rossi). It was issued from the press operated by Pierre Gau…

1556 CE

#7087

Claudii Aeliani... opera, quae extant omnia: Graece Latineque e regione, uti versa hac pagina commemorantur... Conradi Gesneri.

First edition in print, edited by Conrad Gessner, of Aelianus's collected works, including On the nature of animals (On the characteristics of animals). Aelianus was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourish…

1917 CE

#9988

Das homerische Tiersystem und seine Bedeutung für die zoologische Systematik des Aristoteles.

Digital facsimile from the Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1929 CE

#9987

Die Ärƶtlichen Kenntnisse in Ilias und Odyssee.

Medical knowledge in the Iliad and Odyssey. Digital facsimile from Google Books at this link.

1922 CE

#9985

Die homerische Medizin. Eine medizin-kulturhistorische Skizze.

Medicine in Homer.

2008 CE

#8308

Embodiments of will: Anatomical and physiological theories of voluntary animal motion from Greek antiquity to the Latin Middle Ages, 400 B.C - A.D.1300.

2009 CE

#11939

Encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs. Edited by Paul Keyser and Georgia Irby-Massie.

1533 CE

#8952

Ex Aeliani historia per Petrum Gyllium latini facti, itemque ex Porphyrio, Heliodoro, Oppiano: Tum eodem Gyllio luculentis accessionibus aucti libri XVI. De ui & natura animalium. Eiusdem Gyllij liber unus, de gallicis & latinis nominibus piscium.

Editio princeps of Aelianus's late antique work on natural history. Along with Aelianus's text Gyllius included his own “Liber summarius de Gallicis et Latinis nominibus piscium Massiliensium” [Book on the…

1478 CE

#7086

Halieutica, sive de piscatu. [Translated by Lorenzo Lippi, with recipes for cooking added by Lippi.]

The didactic poem on fish and fishing by Oppian of Anazarbus, a 2nd-century Greco-Roman poet, survived the Middle Ages essentially in its entirety, consisting of 3500 lines in Greek. The poem was dedicated to the empe…

2002 CE

#9715

Healing kidney diseases in antiquity: Plants from Dioscorides' De materia medica, with Illustrations from Greek and Arabic manuscripts (A.D. 512-15th Century).

1997 CE

#8273

Health and disease in the Holy Land: Studies in the history and sociology of medicine from ancient times to the present, edited by Manfred Waserman and Samuel S. Kotteck.

c. 1481 CE–c. 1482 CE

#6811

Herbarium Apulei.

The first printed herbal with illustrations was an illustrated edition of the Herbarium Apulei by Apuleius Platonicus or Pseudo-Apuleius, originally compiled circa 400 CE or earlier, and issued in Rome by the printer …

1469 CE

#89

Historia naturalis, libri XXXVII.

The most ancient Western encyclopedia extant, Pliny’s Historia contained essentially all that was known in his time concerning geography, mineralogy, anthropology, botany, zoology and meteorology. Books XX-XXXII…

1800 CE

#1768

Historiae Aegypti compendium, Arabice et Latine. Partim ipse vertit, partim a Pocockio versum edendum curavit, notisque illustravit J. White.

Arabic-Latin bilingual text, edited by White, incorporating a translation begun by Edward Pococke the Younger (1648-1727). Abd al-Latif gave a good description of the fauna and flora of Egypt, its inhabitants and some…

1965 CE–1991 CE

#9075

History of animals. Vol. 1, Books 1-3; Vol. 2, Books 4-6; Vol. 3, Books 7-10. Vols. 1 & 2 edited with an introduction and translated by A. L. Peck; Vol. 3 edited and translated by D. M. Balme.

Loeb Classic Library.

1778 CE

#6381

History of the origin of medicine, delivered at the anniversary meeting of the Medical Society of London, January 19, 1778, and printed at their request. To which are since added, various historical illustrations.

The work covers the "origin of medicine" from the time of the Creation to the Trojan War (6000 – 1184 BCE), and describes both Old and New World medical practices of the period. The lectures were necessarily rel…

2014 CE

#8296

History of toxicology and environmental health. Toxicology in antiquity. 2 vols. Edited by Philip Wexler.

1983 CE

#12308

Les maladies à l'aube de la civilisation occidentale. Recherches sur la réalité pathologique dans le monde grec préhistorique, archaïque et classique.

1998 CE

#8183

Les maladies dans l'art antique.

1897 CE–1904 CE

#11935

Les plantes dans l'antiquité et au moyen âge. Histoire, usages et symbolisme. 2 vols.

Digital facsimile from Biodiversity Heritage Library at this link.

1997 CE

#9344

Magie, médecine et divination chez les Celtes.

1885 CE

#13835

Médecine et moeurs de l'ancienne Rome d'après les poètes latins.

Translated into English as Medicine and morals of ancient Rome according to the Latin poets (Cincinnati: Cincinnati Lancet-clinic, 1901). Digital facsimile of the 1885 edition from Google Books at this link. Facsimile…

1985 CE

#8123

Medical ethics in antiquity: Philosophical perspectives on abortion and euthanasia.

2001 CE

#8124

Medical ethics in the ancient world.

1999 CE

#9810

Medicina antiqua. Codex Vindobonensis 93. Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek. Introduction by Peter Murray Jones, commentary by Franz Unterkircher. Manuscripts in Miniature, No. 4.

Color reproduction, reduced in size by one-third, of "a compendium of popular Late Antique texts brought together in the 6th century. It contains writings on herbs and materia medica by authors heavily reliant on the …

2018 CE

#11089

Mental illness in ancient medicine: From Celsus to Paul of Aegina. Edited by Chiara Thumiger and Peter Singer.

2018 CE

#12538

Mesopotamian medicine and magic. Studies in honor of Markham J. Geller. Edited by Strahil V. Panayotov and Ludek Vacin.

"The [34] contributions concentrate mainly on Mesopotamian scholarly descriptions and practices of diagnosing and healing diverse physical ailments and mental distress. The festschrift contains both critical editions …

1479 CE

#17

Opera. In four parts dated: I) 15 Sept. 1479; II) 13 Oct. 1479; III) 21 Oct. 1479; IV) 8 Nov. 1479. Contents: [I] Praedicamenta, De interpretatione, Analytica priora (Tr: Boethius). Add: Porphyrius: Isagoge in Aristotelis Praedicamenta (Tr: Boethius). Gilbertus Porretanus: Liber sex principiorum. Boethius: Divisiones. [II] Analytica posteriora (Tr: Jacobus Veneticus). [III] Sophistici elenchi, Topica (Tr: Boethius). [IV] Physica (Tr: Guilelmus de Moerbeka).

Aristotle, at one time tutor to Alexander the Great, was, among other things, the first observational biologist, and the founder of comparative anatomy. His views had a profound influence in determining the direction …

1483 CE

#9399

Opera. With the commentary of Averroes. Edited by Nicoletus Vernia. 8 parts.

First edition of the collected works of Aristotle with the commentaries of Averroes, by which Aristotle was mainly studied during the Middle Ages. The purpose of Vernia's edition was to provide an accurate edition of …

1517 CE

#7111

Oppianou Alieuticon biblia pente. Tou autou Kynegetikon biblia tessara. Oppiani De piscibus libri V. Eiusdem De venatione libri IV. Oppiani De piscibus Laurentio Lippio interprete libri V.

First edition in print of Oppian of Apamea's Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά/KynÄ“getiká, 'On Hunting' ), a didactic poem in 2144 hexameters and 4 books, dedicated to t…

1908 CE

#7110

Oppien d'Apamée, La chasse. Édition critique par Pierre Boudreaux.

Standard edition of the Cynegetica (Κυνηγετικά/KynÄ“getiká, 'On Hunting' ) by Oppian of Apamea. This edition was based upon a new collation of prior printed ed…

1996 CE

#6983

Prospecting for drugs in ancient and medieval European texts. A scientific approach, edited by Bart K. Holland.

1998 CE

#8302

Text and tradition: Studies in ancient medicine and its transmission: Presented to Jutta Kollesch. Edited by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Diethard Nickel, and Paul Potter.

1938 CE

#7103

The ape in antiquity.

Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.