galen

The ancient writer Galen advised learning from all the schools of philosophy but belonging to none of them.

The leap from Galen (whose methods dominated Europe for a shockingly long time) to Islamic-era methods was pretty dramatic.

Edit: some really great ideas about photography can be found in Galen Rowell's excellent Inner Game of Outdoor Photography collection of essays.

I recommend Peter Van Inwagen and Galen Strawson instead, who offer much more rigorous good-faith arguments about free will.

By this standard Galen condemns modern medicine and Ptolemy makes physics a joke.

In this recent presentation[1] (PDF) MSR's Galen Hunt gives a nice high-level overview of Drawbridge, possible applications and some more details about their current progress.

It lands like something Galen might have written.

If you're up for it I'm galen at tlon.io.

Nikon showed Galen and other sports and action pros, somehow implying that even if you didn't need speed or durability, that you still needed to buy the top pro camera if you could afford it.

Speaking generally, the views of the more scientific philosophers come from Aristotle and the Neoplatonists in logic and metaphysics, from Galen in medicine, from Greek and Indian sources in mathematics and astronomy, and among mystics religious philosophy has also an admixture of old Persian beliefs.

There was in fact open (though of course not, in the end of the day, effective ) opposition to T4 from inside Germany, notably from the Catholic Church which was one institution the Nazis had to handle with some care, and Cardinal van Galen was invoking the German Penal Code against it as late as 1941.

Galen in 2nd century AD observed cancer, and used the term "oncos" to describe it.

What you're describing sounds similar to what Galen Strawson calls the "transience view" (formerly the "pearl view", as in a string of pearls).

Try reading about the history of medicine: after Galen (second century common era), mostly thanks to different church/ideological dogmas, "doctors" (quotes because they were quite unsurprisingly unaware of the scientific approach) spent hundreds of years theorizing instead experimenting.

Galen mentioned low carb diets as a treatment for epilepsy, and for certain kinds of athletes.

Incidentally, Warner Chillcot was originally a Northern Irish business (Galen) that changed its name to that of an American company it bought.

Galen had a whole raft of intuitions about human physiology that were false.