Hellenistic Science at Court / / Marquis Berrey.
The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ,
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (VIII, 274 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Simmias the Elephant-Hunter and Other People at the Court of Ptolemy
- 2. Kingship, Symposia, Gift-Exchange: Parameters of Friendship
- 3. An Entertaining Genre
- 4. Technology and Performance in Eratosthenes and Andreas
- 5. Herophilus’ Pulse and Archimedes’ Mechanized Mathematics
- Epilogue
- Editions of Primary Sources
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- Index Rerum