It’s Raining Calves: History and Sources of a Spurious Citation from Avicenna in Albert the Great’s 'Meteorology'
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The paper investigates the textual history of a citation attributed by Albert the Great to Avicenna and demonstrates its use, primarily in the debates on spontaneous generation, throughout the Middle Ages and Renaissance.
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