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This is the first edition for nearly 150 years, taking into account a fuller range of manuscripts than either of the previous editions, of the collection of problems on natural science and medicine edited by Bussemaker in 1857 as pseudo-Aristotle, __Problemata Inedita__, and by Usener in 1859 as pseudo-Alexander of Aphrodisias, __Problems__ books 3 and 4, the attribution differing in different manuscripts. The new critical text, based on collation of 31 Greek manuscripts, is accompanied by an annotated English translation. An extensive introduction reconstructs the complex manuscript tradition and examines the origin and nature of the collection, which is argued to be complex, including two distinct groups of problems from approximately the time of Alexander (the second to third centuries AD) together with other material which is similar in character and origin to the __Problems__ included in standard editions of Aristotle, compiled in the third century BC and in some cases related to extant or lost works by Aristotle's colleague Theophrastus. Part of the collection is also related to the eighth-century Latin __Problemata Bambergensia__. The material in this book will be of interes

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Author

Kapetanaki, Sophia (editor);Sharples, Robert W. (editor)

Publisher

de Gruyter GmbH, Walter

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9783110913972

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Science, Philosophy