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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...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Berlin ; Boston :
De Gruyter,
[2017]
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| Series: | Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ;
5. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
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.