Screen LibraryThe frontiers of ancient science : essays in honor of heinrich von staden /
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
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[2015] ©2015 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
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English German French |
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Beitr ge zur altertumskunde;
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| Summary: |
Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden. |
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1 online resource (xxi, 754 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110336337 |
| Index Number: | Q124 |
| CLC: | N09 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Egypt and the Medicinal Use of Papyrus According to Soranus and Other Physicians / Medical Acculturation?: Early Greek Texts and the Question of Near Eastern Influence / "Hippocratic" Oaths?: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Medical Ethics in the Ancient World / Simplicius in Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Question / Aristotle and the Study of Animals and Plants / A Case of Cultural (Mis)translation?: Egyptian Eyes on Two Greek Amulets for Ophthalmia / Gesund durchs Jahr mit Dr. Hippokrates Monat f r Monat! / Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle s Generation of Animals 2.6 / Un ex-voto ophtalmologique inscrit Rougiers (Var) : pour une tude des maladies des yeux dans le monde gallo-romain / Medicine and Misfortune: Sympt ma in Greek Medical Writing / Mathematics in Plato s Republic / Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors / Erotian, Reader of Hippocrates Prognostic: A New Discovery / Aristotle s Badger / Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics / Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body / "For sleep, in some way, is an epileptic seizure" (somn. vig. 3, 457a9 10) / Il Numen Augusti nel senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre / How Archytas Doubled the Cube / A Revised Astronomical Dating of Thessalus De virtutibus herbarum / What s in a Nomen?: Vlatadon 14 and an Old Theory Resurrected / An Archaeological Meditation on Trepanation / Des listes pour apprendre, r soudre, cl |