Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum

Conciliator differentiarum philosophorum et medicorum

Incunabula

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Petrus, de Abano, approximately 1250-approximately 1315

The thirteenth-century Italian scholastic, Petrus de Abano, translated Hippocrates, Galen, and many other classic Greek medical texts into Latin. His major work, the Conciliator differentiarum [Reconciler of the Differences Between Philosophers and Physicians] represents his attempt to answer medical questions through a synthesis of Greek, Arabic, Jewish, and Latin authorities, including Aristotle, Avicenna, and Averro

Woodcut print of abdominal muscles from Conciliator differentiarum (Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 15 March 1496)

Petrus, de Abano, approximately 1250-approximately 1315

Bonetus Locatellus

1496 March 15

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Warren Library of the Harvard Medical Library (1.Mw.1496.P Cab.12, shelf 4)

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Bequest of Dr. John Warren to the Harvard Medical Library, 1928