Screen LibraryWriting 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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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: | [2013] |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures;
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| Summary: |
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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1 online resource(viii,502pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110295122（electronic bk.） |
| Index Number: | Q124 |
| CLC: | T11 |
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 Writing / In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond / Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum. |