By Pieter De Leemans
Mediaevalia Lovaniensia 39Communication results in an evolution of data, and the loose trade of information results in clean findings. within the center a long time issues have been no diverse. The inheritance of historic wisdom deeply prompted medieval idea. The writings of old Greek philosophers equivalent to Aristotle reached medieval readers basically via translations. Translators made an interpretation of the source-text, and their translations grew to become the topic of commentaries. An realizing of the advanced internet of family members between source-texts, translations, and commentaries finds how medical considering developed in the course of the center a while. Aristotle's Problemata, a textual content scary a number of questions on clinical and daily issues, amply illustrates the verbal exchange of principles through the transition among antiquity and the Renaissance.
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Cf. FLASHAR, Problemata Physica…, p. 333-341 and 356-358. Cf. F. W. , Theophrastus of Eresus. On sweat, on dizziness and on fatigue (Philosophia Antiqua. A series of studies on ancient philosophy 93), Leiden-Boston: Brill, 2003, p. 12-15, 178-179, 256 and 259-262. Cf. FLASHAR, Problemata Physica…, p. 299. 8735-06_Goyens-Leem_03 34 19/12/06, 4:56 pm 35 THE GENRE PROBLEMATA IN ARABIC 2. Problemata Physica Arabica (PPA) Renan7 was the first to write about an Arabic translation of the Problemata Physica, translated in Hebrew by Moses ibn Tibbon at Montpellier in 12648.
Fr. 211, fol. 1r. 3, vol. 1, fol. 1r (illumination) and 1va (quotation). Cf. KORTEWEG A. , Boeken van Oranje-Nassau: De bibliotheek van de graven van Nassau en prinsen van Oranje in de vijftiende eeuw. The Hague: Museum van het Boek/Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum and Koninklijke Bibliotheek, 1998, p. 31 and figure 28. I am grateful to Dr. Korteweg for advice about this manuscript. The colophon of the Problemata in Vatican, BA, lat. 2112, fol. 34vb reads: ‘Explicit iste liber utilis ad multa’. I am grateful to Dr.
Oxy. 2744’, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 20 (1970), p. 29-42 (cf. 153 in POxy 2744’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 36 (1979), p. C. Plutarch, Quaest. Nat. 11 as argued by FLASHAR, Aristoteles: Problemata…, p. 360 n. 1. Plutarch, De prim. frig. 29; cf. FLASHAR, Aristoteles: Problemata… BUSSEMAKER, Aristoteles: Opera…, p. xviii argued that Plutarch, Quaest. Nat. 145, but FLASHAR, Aristoteles: Problemata…, p. 28 578a32-b5. 9 may be an abridged remnant of the fuller discussion reported by Plutarch, Quaest.