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Hellenistic Science at Court /

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Berrey, Marquis (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
Colección:Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ; 5.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.