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Claudij Galeni Pergameni de temperamentis libri III. De inaequali intemperie liber I. Thoma Linacro Anglo Interprete

Galien · 1545 · Paris : Christian Wechel · 3 pictures

A 1545 Paris edition by Christian Wechel of Galen's medical treatise on temperaments, translated from Greek by Thomas Linacre for scholarly readers. Its pictures are printed text diagrams, bracketed lists and hourglass-shaped logical figures, plus a decorative woodcut of a winged creature above caduceus-like ornament and clouds, which suggests classical symmetry and tidy typographic structure.

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