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  • Observations on man, his frame, his duty, and his expectations. In two parts / By David Hartley.
  • The figure of Philosophy appearing to Boethius. Chromolithograph by Thurwanger after C. Ciappori after a 15th-century painting.
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica  Robert Fludd.
  • Plato discussing philosophical matters with others in the garden of the Academia. Etching by Salvator Rosa.
  • Philosophia sacra et vere Christiana, seu meteorologia cosmica  Robert Fludd.
  • De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].
  • Emblem representing the path to the philosopher's stone in alchemy. Etching by Defehrt, 1768, after L.-J. Goussier, after the frontispiece to a 17th century book by Libavius.
  • De natura humana libri duo, quorum prior de corporis structura, posterior de anima tractat ... Cum praefatione de anatomia vitali & mortuâ pro conciliatione Spagyricorum & Galenicorum plurimum inserviente / [Gregor Horst].
  • Oxford: Friar Bacon's study, with the river. Line engraving.
  • A man writing; representing the faculty of memory. Engraving, 16--.
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Works

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    Averrois Cordubensis commentarium medium in Porphyrii Isagogen et Aristotelis Categorias : Textum Hebraicum recensuit et adnotationibus illustrauit / Herbert A. Davidson.

    Averroës, 1126-1198 | Date: 1969
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    Dante, philomythes and philosopher : man in the cosmos / Patrick Boyde.

    Boyde, Patrick | Date: 1983, ©1981
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    La perfection de l'homme selon Galien / Vincent Barras et Terpsi Birchler.

    Barras, Vincent | Date: 1994
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    Problems of science and philosophy : the papers read at the joint session of the Aristotelian Society, the British Psychological Society, and the Mind Association, held at Bedford college, London, July 11th-14th, 1919.

    | Date: 1919
  • view The treatises of Aristotle on the soul, etc / Translated from the Greek with copious elucidations from the commentaries of Simplicius on the first of these treatises. By Thomas Taylor.
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    The treatises of Aristotle on the soul, etc / Translated from the Greek with copious elucidations from the commentaries of Simplicius on the first of these treatises. By Thomas Taylor.

    Aristotle | Date: 1808
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