Writing Science : Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece.

By: Kanthak, Anna-MariaContributor(s): Asper, MarkusMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures SerPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 2013Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (510 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783110295122Subject(s): Mathematics, Greek | Medicine, Greek and Roman | Science -- Greece -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Writing Science : Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient GreeceDDC classification: 808.06650938 LOC classification: Q124.95.W68 2013ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- 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 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.
Summary: STMAC aims to advance an inter-disciplinary and inclusive approach to the study of science in the ancient world, ranging from mathematics and physics, medicine and magic to astronomy, astrology, and divination and covering the Mediterranean world, the Near (Middle) East, and Central and East Asia. The series is open to different types of publications including monographs and edited volumes as well as text editions and commentaries.
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Intro -- 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 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.

STMAC aims to advance an inter-disciplinary and inclusive approach to the study of science in the ancient world, ranging from mathematics and physics, medicine and magic to astronomy, astrology, and divination and covering the Mediterranean world, the Near (Middle) East, and Central and East Asia. The series is open to different types of publications including monographs and edited volumes as well as text editions and commentaries.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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