1st Edition
Galen on the Atomists Anti-teleologism, Theory of Matter and Medical Corpuscularism
Part One: Galen’s Design Argument vs. Epicurean Evolution in De usu partium
Chapter 1
Genesis, Date, and Aftermath of Galen’s De usu partium
Chapter 2
Galen and Anatomy as Evidence for Nature– Demiurge’s Provident Design
Chapter 3
The Epicurean Theory of Adaptation and the Case of Hand Tendons in Galen’s De usu partium
Chapter 4
Two Notions of Suitability: Lucretius on Suitable and Monstrous Bodies, and Their Adaptation by Extinction
Part Two: Galen on Particles in De elementis secundum Hippocratem
Chapter 5
De elementis: Date and Contents
Chapter 6
Indivisibility and Immutability of the Atoms in De elementis
6.1 Galen’s Use of ἕν and His Description of the Democritean Atom as an Eleatic One
6.2 The Properties of the Atoms and the Overlap between Ancient Atomism and Epicureanism in Galen’s De elementis
Chapter 7
The Reception of Atomism in the Late Authors. The Case of Galen’s De elementis
Chapter 8
Galen against Atomic Impassibility: The ‘Needle Argument’ and Its Background
8.1 Cicero’s Account
8.2 Plutarch’s Testimony in Adversus Colotem
Part Three: Atoms or Molecules? The Nature of Asclepiades’ ὄγκοι and the Background of His Flux Theory
Chapter 9
Nature and Meaning of Asclepiades’ ὄγκοι
Chapter 10
The Ancient Testimonies on the Nature of Asclepiades’ ὄγκοι
10.1 Galen’s Account
10.2 Sextus’ Account
10.3 Caelius Aurelianus’ Account
10.4 Calcidius’ Account
Chapter 11
Asclepiade’s Flux Theory and the Epicurean Doctrine of Emanations
Chapter 12
Asclepiades and Lucretius on Pathology
Conclusions
Bibliography
Biography
Ambra Serangeli is a researcher in classics at Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy, where she teaches history of ancient scientific thought. In 2020 she obtained her PhD in philosophy at the University of Oslo and is currently responsible for two research projects in the field of ancient medicine: The Human Body and the Environment: Ancient Medicine and Complex Adaptive Systems and Spaces and Places of Medicine in Imperial Rome (Next Generation EU-PNRR-Young Researchers funded project).
