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Aulus Cornelius Celsus (c. 25 BC – c. 50 AD) was a Roman encyclopaedist, known for his extant medical work, De Medicina, which is believed to be the only surviving section of a much larger encyclopedia.
Aulus Cornelius Celsus (flourished 1st century ad, Rome) was one of the greatest Roman medical writers, author of an encyclopaedia dealing with agriculture, military art, rhetoric, philosophy, law, and medicine, of which only the medical portion has survived.
Jun 8, 2018 · Aulus Cornelius Celsus (ca. 25 B.C.- A.D. 45) was the Roman author of the first systematic treatise on medicine. It is the most important historical source for present-day knowledge of Alexandrian and Roman medicine.
Jan 24, 2013 · The Roman nobleman Cornelius Celsus (25 BC–AD 50) wrote a general encyclopedia (De Artibus) dealing with several subjects, among which some had medical content (De Medicina), an eight-volume compendium, including two books about surgery (VII + VIII).
The first mention of this debate of which we are aware comes from the Roman encyclopaedist Aulus Cornelius Celsus. Though it is generally accepted that Celsus lived between about 25 BC and 50 AD, his date of birth is unknown.
"Cornelius Celsus, Aulus" published on by Oxford University Press. Celsus was a Latin encyclopaedist of the early Roman Empire. Only the eight medical books of his Artes survive, but agriculture, rhetoric, and military matters were also encompassed in his work.
