An Auto-Bibliography by John Caius

ISBN-13: 9781138069121 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 150 str.

Vivian Nutton

Opis

John Caius (1510-1573) was an English scholar with an international reputation as a naturalist, historian and medical writer. His Autobibliography has been translated into English for the first time in this book, throwing light on European medicine in the sixteenth century, and the humanistic culture that linked learned men and women across Europe.

Spis treści

Part I Introduction; Preface: The life of John Caius; The scholar and his books; John Caius and Renaissance Galenism; Part II Translation: An Autobibliography; An Autobibliography by John Caius, from Britain, in one book; Appendix I: The lost writings of John Caius; Appendix II: John Caius and religion in early Elizabethan Cambridge; Bibliography; Index

O autorze

Vivian Nutton is Professor of the History of Medicine, I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University, and Emeritus Professor of the History of Medicine, University College London. Among his recent books are a translation of Galen, On Distress (2013), Ancient Medicine, 2ed (2013), and a translation of Johann Guinter and Andreas Vesalius, Principles of Anatomy according to the Opinion of Galen (2017).