Publications de LYSA Publishers - Pascasius Justus Turcq On Gambling par William M. Barton & Henry Estienne On Books par Jeroen De Keyser, Noreen Humble et Keith Sidwell
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Pascasius Justus Turcq. On Gambling. Edited and translated by William M. Barton Pascasius Justus Turcq from Eeklo became the mayor of Bergen-op-Zoom, where he worked as a physician and in 1582 helped saving the life of William the Silent. Alongside tales of gambling princes and perceptive accounts of the mental suffering experienced by problem gamblers, Pascasius’ De alea is remarkable for its singular insights into 16th-century medical science. It proposes a novel description of compulsive ...