A Companion to Byzantine Science

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-41460-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 6, 660 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1111 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to the Byzantine World

Science in Byzantium has rarely been systematically explored. A first of its kind, this collection of essays highlights the disciplines, achievements, and contexts of Byzantine science across the eleven centuries of the Byzantine empire. After an introduction on science in Byzantium and the 21st century, and a study of Christianization and the teaching of science in Byzantium, it offers a comprehensive and up-to-date survey of the scientific disciplines cultivated in Byzantium, from the exact to the natural sciences, medicine, polemology, and the occult sciences. The volume showcases the diversity and vivacity of the varied scientific endeavours in the Byzantine world across its long history, and aims to bring the field into broader conversations within Byzantine studies, medieval studies, and history of science.

Contributors are Fabio Acerbi, Anne-Laurence Caudano, Gonzalo Andreotti Cruz, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Herve Inglebert, Stavros Lazaris, Divna Manolova, Maria K. Papathanassiou, Inmaculada Pérez Martín, Thomas Salmon, Ioannis Telelis, Anne Tihon, Alain Touwaide, Arnaud Zucker.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Lazaris, Stavros

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike Byzantinische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

Introduction

Stavros Lazaris

1. The Knowledge of Pagan Greeks

Hervé Inglebert

2. Science Teaching

Inmaculada Pérez Martín & Divna Manolova

3. Logistic, Arithmetic, Harmonic Theory, Geometry, Metrology, Optics and Mechanics

Fabio Acerbi

4. Byzantine Theories of vision

Katerina Ierodiakonou

5. Meteorology and Physics

Ioannis Telelis

6. Astronomy and Astrology

Anne-Laurence Caudano

7. Geography

Inmaculada Pérez Martín & Gonzalo Andreotti Cruz

8. Zoology

Arnaud Zucker

9. Botany

Alain Touwaide

10. Medicine and Pharmacology

Alain Touwaide

11. Veterinary medicine

Stavros Lazaris

12. Science of warfare

Thomas Salmon

13. Occult Sciences

Maria K. Papathanassiou

Conclusion

Anne Tihon

General Bibliography

General Index

Index of Manuscripts

Illustrations

Über Autor(innen)

Stavros Lazaris is a researcher at the CNRS, Paris. His research focuses on the history of the Byzantine civilisation and the study of original documents in the fields of the history of science and technology and the history of texts and images. His other interests include the function of medieval illustrations and their importance in the transmission of medical and scientific knowledge to Byzantium, as well as the Christianisation of pagan scientific literature.