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Hermes 109 (2):188-196 (1981)

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  1. Causing doubts: Diodorus Cronus and herophilus of chalcedon on causality.David Leith - 2014 - Classical Quarterly 64 (2):592-608.
    The physician Herophilus of Chalcedon, who lived and worked in Alexandria in the early third centuryb.c., is best known and justly celebrated for his numerous and ground-breaking anatomical discoveries and advances in such areas as pulse theory. His systematic investigations into the human body led to some of the highest achievements of Hellenistic science, among which the best known is probably his discovery and detailed description of the nervous system and its functions. Yet certain aspects of his thought have seemed (...)
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  • Anatomy in Alexandria in the Third Century B.C.James Longrigg - 1988 - British Journal for the History of Science 21 (4):455-488.
    The most striking advances in the knowledge of human anatomy and physiology that the world had ever known—or was to know until the seventeenth century A.D.—took place in Hellenistic Alexandria. The city was founded in 331 B.C. by Alexander the Great. After the tatter's death in 323 B.C. and the subsequent dissolution of his empire, it became the capital of one of his generals, Ptolemy, son of Lagus, who established the Ptolemaic dynasty there. The first Ptolemy, subsequently named Soter , (...)
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