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3 December 2018
Italy

Lectures by Robert Vinkesteijn in Italy

Robert Vinkesteijn has given two talks in Italy, concerning the vegetative soul in Galen.
On the 12th and 13th of september 2018, he gave a lecture titled: ‘An animal is a better plant; the vegetative soul in Galen‘, at the “Vegetative Powers: Endowing Bodily Life from Late Antiquity to the Early-Modern Period” conference in Padua.
The second lecture was about: ‘A Green Thread from Galen to Early Modern Medicine: The Analogy Between Animals and Plants‘, in collaboration with Fabrizio Baldassari. This lecture took place at the congress “Galen and the Early Moderns” in Venice, on October 25-26 (2018).