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Histories of Experience around the Globe

Virtual-Classroom Sourcebook

Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650

If you would like to contribute or to receive further information, please contact: Katja Krause

kkrause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

This virtual publication offers students in the history of philosophy, science, and medicine a geographically wide-ranging selection of primary sources on experience in the premodern sciences of soul and body. Scholars around the world are invited to contribute their favorite source text on experience and complement it with an English translation and a short introductory essay.

 

Episodes

Simplicius, Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories First Half of the Sixth Century CE

Simplicius,
Commentary on Aristotle’s Categories 

Moses Maimonides, Guide of the Perplexed, III, 37 Fusṭāṭ (Old Cairo), ca. 1185–91 CE

Maimonides,
Guide of the Perplexed 

Halper, VCS, Maimonides Moses Maimonides, Commentary on Hippocrates’ Aphorisms Fusṭāṭ, Egypt, 1190s CE

Maimonides,
On Hippocrates' Aphorisms 

Chirologia, “Alphabet of naturall expressions.”

Bulwer, 
Chirologia

Morton, VCS, Saint-Victor Richard of Saint Victor, The Mystical Ark (Benjamin major) Paris, ca. 1160–70

Richard of St. Victor,
Mystical Ark

"Historia natural y moral de las Indias"

Acosta,
Historia de las Indias

 

Erlwein, Avicenna the Book of Demonstrations of The Healing Ibn Sīnā (Avicenna): al-Burhān min al-Shifāʾ (The Book of Demonstrations of The Healing) Isfahan, ca. 1027 CE

Avicenna,
Book of Demonstrations 

Kleven, VCS, Al-Fārābī Al-Fārābī: Five Aphorisms Baghdad, Aleppo, Damascus, or Cairo, late ninth/first half of the tenth century CE

Al-Fārābī,
Five Aphorisms 

Castel-Branco, VCS, Uwens Hendrick Uwens: Excerpts from Tratado da Estática Lisbon, 1645

Uwens,
Tratado da Estática 

Portrait of Galen, mezzotint by J. Faber (1768)

Galen,
On Hippocrates' Aphorisms