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Writing Science : Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece.

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 quest...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Asper, Markus
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013.
Colección:Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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 WritingIn Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond; Notes on Contributors; General Index; Index Locorum.