Writing Science : : Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece /

Writing Science : : Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece / / ed. by Markus Asper.

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Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This applies to Classics, too, despite the fact that a large part of the field’s extant texts deal with questions of medicine, mathematics, and natural philosophy. Focusing mostly on medical and mathe...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Backlist Classics and Near East Studies 2000-2014 (EN)
MitwirkendeR:
Asper, Markus,
Bogen, Steffen,
Bowen, Alan C.,
Chemla, Karine,
Cuomo, Serafina,
Doxiadis, Apostolos,
Eijk, Philip van der,
Fögen, Thorsten,
Holmes, Brooke,
Kanthak, Anna-Maria,
Keyser, Paul T.,
Netz, Reviel,
Rosen, Ralph M.,
Sialaros, Michalis,
Sluiter, Ineke,
Staden, Heinrich von,
Taub, Liba,
HerausgeberIn:
Asper, Markus,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures , 1
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Physical Description:1 online resource (502 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Preface
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • A. Comparisons
  • The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context
  • Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China
  • Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia
  • B. Greek Medical Writing
  • Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen
  • Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures
  • Galen on Poetic Testimony
  • The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries
  • C. Greek Mathematical Writing
  • Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences
  • Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens
  • Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics
  • Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC
  • D. Science Writing as/and Literature
  • On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse
  • Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics
  • Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing
  • In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond
  • Notes on Contributors
  • General Index
  • Index Locorum

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