Heat, pneuma, and soul in ancient philosophy and science /
The conceptualization of the vital force of living beings as a kind of breath and heat is at least as old as Homer. The assumptions that life and living things were somehow causally related to 'heat' and 'breath' (pneuma) would go on to inform much of ancient medicine and philoso...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2020.
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