Galen in the library

4 works in the library quote Galen — 6 citations, each anchored to a verbatim passage in the work that does the quoting.

Hugo Grotius 3 citations · Bar Hebraeus 1 citation · Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī 1 citation · Miskawayh 1 citation

The harvest records where a citation is made: the paragraph in the citing book, and the chapter that paragraph stands in. It does not record which page of Galen is meant. Where the citing text names a locus, you will find it in the quotation.

1. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 1 authority · 2 neutral 3 citations

   ch. 9 · ch. 10 · ch. 33

   Explicitly named and quoted at length in paraphrase.

   ” On which Galen expresses himself in the following manner, “every animal appears to defend itself with that part of its body, in which it excels others.

2. Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah Bar Hebraeus 1 refuted 1 citation · 4 passages

   ch. 10 4 passages anchored here

   The Arabic kamā zaʻama Jālīnūs attributes the encephalocentric thesis to him with a verb of mere claiming, and the chapter argues against it throughout.

   So it has become clear that the heart is the mine of perception (*idrāk*) and of the motive faculty (*al-quwwah al-muḥarrikah*), and not the brain, as Jālīnūs claimed.

3. Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn Jamāl al-Dīn al-Qāsimī 1 refuted 1 citation

   ch. 5

   The interpretation is reported and immediately attributed to ignorance.

   they named it the divine disease only because this affliction occurs in the head and so harms ⟨.

4. al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq Miskawayh 1 authority 1 citation

   the book of happiness

   The work is named explicitly and referred the reader to as the fuller proof of the claim being made.

   Whoever looks into the book On the Uses of the Parts will come upon a great wisdom and will see clearly much of what I have merely gestured at in this place.