Length and Shortness of Life Between Philosophy and Medicine: The Arabic Aristotle and his Medieval Readers, 2017
By: Rotraud Hansberger
Title Length and Shortness of Life Between Philosophy and Medicine: The Arabic Aristotle and his Medieval Readers
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2017
Published in Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam
Pages 48–74
Categories Medicine, Aristotle, Natural Philosophy
Author(s) Rotraud Hansberger
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Length and Shortness of Life Between Philosophy and Medicine: The Arabic Aristotle and his Medieval Readers, 2017
By: Rotraud Hansberger
Title Length and Shortness of Life Between Philosophy and Medicine: The Arabic Aristotle and his Medieval Readers
Type Book Section
Language English
Date 2017
Published in Philosophy and Medicine in the Formative Period of Islam
Pages 48–74
Categories Medicine, Aristotle, Natural Philosophy
Author(s) Rotraud Hansberger
Publisher(s)
Translator(s)

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