Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 1.5

HIPPOCRATES (ca. 460 B.C – ca. 368 B.C.) Quarum artium, ac linguarum cognitione medico opus sit : praefatio ante Hippocratis Aphorismorum initium, per Ianum Cornarium ... habita Rostochii. Aphorismi Hippocratis, Graece. Apud Iohan Secerium 1530? First Separate Edition in Greek. [88] p. 16 cm.

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[Uniform title: Aphorisms. Text of the Aphorisms in Greek.] Rare first separate edition in Greek of Hippocrates’ Aphorisms, his most influential and concise text, published by the leading medical philologian Janus Cornarius (or Johannes Hagenbut). After studies at Leipzig and Wittenberg, Cornarius traveled to England, Sweden, Denmark, and France, stayed one year at Basle, where the idea of a Greek and Latin Hippocrates edition was supported by Erasmus. When these Aphorisms appeared he was just 30 years of age; another 8 years later the first complete Greek Hippocrates, entirely based on his studies of manuscripts, appeared in Basle, which ‘made him immortal’, according to Hirsch.