Encyclopaedia of philosophical and natural sciences as taught in Baghdad about A.D. 817, or Book of treasures / by Job of Edessa ; Syriac text edited and translated with a critical apparatus by A. Mingana.

  • Job, of Edessa, active 817-832.
Date:
1935
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Credit: Encyclopaedia of philosophical and natural sciences as taught in Baghdad about A.D. 817, or Book of treasures / by Job of Edessa ; Syriac text edited and translated with a critical apparatus by A. Mingana. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER XXL On the reason why winged birds are oviparous, and do not conceive in the womb, like the quadrupeds, and have no womb, no renal bladder, no outward place for the private parts, and no hands ....... XXII. On the reason why the winged birds have no incisors, no molars, no ribs and no spinal vertebrae .... XXIII. On the reason why fish are longer than all the terrestrial and aerial animals, have no hands and feet, and are not drowned in water; and on the reason why some of them have white scales, some of them black scales, and some of them no scales at all; and why some of them have shells . Third Discourse : Author’s Introduction. I. On the genera of tastes ....... II. On sweetness ......... On the bitter taste ........ On sharpness ......... On saltness ......... On acerbity ......... On tastelessness ......... On sourness ......... III. On colours .......... On their functional ground ....... IV. On how the eye perceives colours ...... V. On how the perceiving power of the soul receives bodies and colours that are thicker than itself; and how the eye receives them from it ...... VI. On smell .......... VII. On the sense of smell. Why the nose receives smells through inhalation, while the eyes, the mouth and the ears are not in need of this inhalation of air VIII. On the sense of hearing ....... Sound .......... IX. On speech .......... X. On wind .......... XI. On breath .......... XII. On the ear ......... XIII. On the sense of feeling ....... XIV. On the reason why the sense of feeling is spread over the whole of the body, while the other senses are not .... XV. On the reason why there are only five senses, and not one or six or any other number ....... XVI. On the fact that colours, sounds, tastes and smells are not essences, as some people believe ..... PAGE 112 115 118 122 122 124 126 126 127 128 129 129 130 130 133 135 138 140 141 142 146 147 148 148 149 150 151 153