"Benedicite, omnia opera"

Opera quae supersunt omnia

GEORGIUS PURKIRCHER, Opera quae supersunt omnia, ed. Miloslaus Okal, Bibliotheca Scriptorum Medii Recentisque Aevorum, new series, vol. 10, Budapest, Akademiai Kiado, 1988, 8vo, pp. 255, £1 1.00. Despite the existence of substantial biography, written in Hungarian in 1941, Georgius Purkircher (c. 1533-77) has never been a name to conjure with. He is known, if at all, only for a long poem on the...

About the Cover: Do Opera Omnia Have a Future?

Over many years the collected works of prominent mathematicians have been published by major presses around the world. They range from something like the folio Opera Omnia of Euler [2], filling over 80 hefty volumes published over many years. At the other extreme, the collected works of Evariste Galois [3] are in a thin 61-page quarto volume published in 1897, well after Galois’ death. In recen...

Arnaldi de Villanova opera medica omnia IV: Tractatus de consideracionibus operis medicine sive de flebotomia

Egyptian medical ideas and their possible influence on Herophilus and the other Greek doctors who practised in Alexandria by Egypt in the third century BC. The prefatory discussions are perhaps the most valuable of all, for they relate Herophilus to a much wider context. They offer judicious surveys of the development of Greek anatomy (von Staden rightly emphasizes the frontier colonialism of e...

Psychology of Leibnitz †"Leibnitzii Opera Philosophica quæ extant omnia." Berlin. (By Professor Erdmann.)

The speculative science of the Germans must be regarded as dating from Leibnitz. The name of Puffendorf, indeed, is generally placed first among those writers who have contributed to tbe formation of an indigenous German philosophy; but he cultivated only one branch?jurisprudence. Leibnitz was in every sense universal. Our limited space obliges us to condense to the utmost as plain an account a...

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