Heat, Pneuma, and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science

Heat Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science\nby Hynek Barto\u00C5\u00A1\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Hynek Barto\u00C5\u00A1\nTitle: Heat Pneuma and Soul in Ancient Philosophy and Science\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: History of science\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2020\nISBN-13: 9781108476737\nISBN-10: 1108476732\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nThe 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 philosophy. This is the first volume to consider the relationship of the notions of heat, breath (pneuma), and sou.