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almafu_9958353895802883
Format:
1 online resource(viii,502p.) :
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illustrations.
Edition:
Electronic reproduction. Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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ISBN:
9783110295122
Series Statement:
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures; 1
Content:
Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This collection, focusing mostly on medical and mathematical texts from ancient Greece, aims at approaching ancient Greek science from the cross-disciplinary perspective of authorship. Among the questions addressed are: How does scientific writing differ from ‘literary’ writing? In what ways does the author present himself as an authoritative figure? In addition to offering a new approach to this vast area of ancient literature, this collection reflects on the forms of scientific and scholarly communication current today.
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Frontmatter --
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Preface --
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Contents --
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Introduction /
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The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context /
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Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China /
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Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia /
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Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen /
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Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures /
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Galen on Poetic Testimony /
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The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries /
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Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences /
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Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens /
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Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics /
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Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC /
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On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse /
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Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics /
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Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing /
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In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond /
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Notes on Contributors --
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General Index --
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Index Locorum.
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Also available in print edition.
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In English.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110295054
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783110295139
Language:
English
Subjects:
Ancient Studies
Keywords:
Konferenzschrift
DOI:
10.1515/9783110295122
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295122
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https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110295122
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