Galeni Prima classis naturam corporis humani (1556 - Vesalius)

Galenus, Claudius:

Galeni Prima classis naturam corporis humani, hoc est elementa, temperaturas, humores, structurae habitudinisque modos, partium dissectionem, usum, facultates & actiones, seminis denique foetuumque tractationem complectitur.

Tertia hac nostra editione, huic classi non parum omnino ornamenti allatum est, ob multorum locorum ex Graecis codicibus castigationem.

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Venetiis, Iuntae 1556. 342 pages. Folio. The first ca 50 and the last ca 50 pages water-stained on upper corner. Some contemporary notes and underlinings in the book. Some scattered spotting. Old worn vellum with damaged spine. Lacking ties. Pastedowns covered with old incunabula leaves.

Singelvolum fra tredje Giunta utgave av Galenus sine verk. Ekstremt sjeldent å se komplette samlinger med alle volumene. Denne utgaven med bidrag fra Andreas Vesalius. Vakkert illustrert tittelblad. En sjelden bok å komme over i noen slags tilstand, spesielt interessant for alle med sans for medisinsk historie.

“The principal and best of the translations [of Galen] are those published

at Venice by Juntas and at Basel by Forbinius.” – Clifford W. Mack, “The

Lure of Medical History,” Cal West Med. 1928 Apr; 28(4): 495–497.

"The editions with Vesalius’s contributions to the Opera Galeni, published by Giunta (Venice) are described in Cushing pp. 63-71, and in Elly Cockx-Indestege pp. 43-52."

GALEN [Galen of Pergamon] (129 - circa 216) was a physician, surgeon and philosopher in the Roman Empire. Arguably the most accomplished of all medical researchers of antiquity, Galen influenced the development of various scientific disciplines, including anatomy, physiology, pathology, pharmacology, and neurology, as well as philosophy and logic. Galen may have produced more work than any author in antiquity. So profuse was Galen's output that the surviving texts represent nearly half of all the extant literature from ancient Greece. Galen's understanding of anatomy and medicine was principally influenced by the then-current theory of humorism (also known as the theory of the four humors: black bile, yellow bile, blood, and phlegm), as advanced by ancient Greek physicians such as Hippocrates. Galen's views dominated and influenced Western medical science for more than 1,300 years. His anatomical reports remained uncontested until 1543, when printed descriptions and illustrations of human dissections were published by Andreas Vesalius. Galen's original Greek texts gained renewed prominence during the early modern period. In the 1530s, Belgian anatomist and physician Andreas Vesalius took on a project to translate many of Galen's Greek texts into Latin. Vesalius's most famous work, De humani corporis fabrica, was greatly influenced by Galenic writing and form. Galen's writings were shown by Vesalius to describe details present in monkeys but not in humans, and he demonstrated Galen's limitations through books and hands-on demonstrations despite fierce opposition from orthodox pro-Galenists such as Jacobus Sylvius.

After publishing Latin editions of Galen in 1522 and 1528, the Giunta press decided to a undertake a new edition incorporating revisions or retranslations based on renewed study of the Greek manuscripts. This was first published in 1541-42 and designated by the Giunta their "first edition". It went through eight more editions by 1625, each with further revisions, entirely new typesetting, and new ornaments and initials. The Giunta edition was the first Latin Galen to incorporate humanistic standards of textual criticism and translation, to distinguish the authentic works of Galen from those attributed to him, and to organize the Galenic corpus according to medical criteria, i.e., with the introductory works preceding those on anatomy and physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, therapeutics and hygiene, and Galen's commentaries on the works of Hippocrates.

Among the many scholars called on to contribute to the Giunta edition was Andreas Vesalius. He edited three works, all printed in the "Prima classis": De neruorum dissectione liber, De venarum arteriarumque dissectione liber; and De anatomicis administrationibus libri nouem.

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