Anchoring Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Erscheinungsjahr 2024
ISBN: 978-90-04-71487-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 07, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Euhormos: Greco-Roman Studies in Anchoring Innovation

This collection of essays explores processes of innovation in Greco-Roman technology and science. It uses the concept of ‘anchoring’ to investigate the microhistories of technological and scientific practices and ideas. The volume combines broad, theoretical essays with more targeted case studies of individual inventions and innovations. In doing so, it moves beyond the emphasis on achievement that has traditionally characterized modern scholarship on ancient technology and science. Instead, the chapters of this volume analyse the manifold ways in which new technologies and ideas were anchored in what was already known and familiar, and highlight how, once familiar, technologies and ideas could themselves become anchoring points for inventions and innovations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Flohr, Miko

Mols, Stephan T.A.M.

Tieleman, Teun L

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword

List of Figures

1 Anchoring, Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity—an Introduction

Miko Flohr, Teun Tieleman, and Stephan Mols

Part 1: Anchoring

2 How the Romans Conceived their Roads: Inner Experience in the Anchoring of Technological Innovation

James W. McAllister

3 Anchoring Innovation as a Form of Social Construction of Technology

Wiebe E. Bijker

4 Beyond Innovation: Early Modern European Technological Values

Lorraine Daston

5 Ancient Greek Doors and Their Humans

Ineke Sluiter

Part 2: Innovation

6 The Reinforcement System of the Theban Treasury in Delphi

Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant

7 From Ashlar to Brick: Anchoring and Innovation in Roman Building Practice

Miko Flohr

8 Tiberius and the Threat of Innovation

Serena Connolly

9 Functional Innovation in Bookcraft in Roman Egypt

Mark de Kreij

Part 3: Technology

10 Anchoring, Innovation, and Ancient Near Eastern Technology

Jill L. Baker

11 From Hand-Bow to Torsion Artillery Devices: Technological Innovation and the Human Factor

Maria Gerolemou

12 Risky Business: Anchoring Blown Glass and Terra Sigillata Production in the Face of Risk

Anna Soifer

13 Models and Modeling in Roman Technology

Rabun Taylor

14 Of Myths and Machines: Anchoring Technology in Mythology in Imperial Rome

Michiel Meeusen

Part 4: Science

15 Authorizing Prognosis in Prometheus Bound

Marianne Govers Hopman

16 Anchoring in tekhnê. Weaving and Plato’s Distinction of Pure and Applied Knowledge

Giovanni Fanfani, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, and Annapurna Mamidipudi

17 Cultural and Cognitive Anchoring in Hero of Alexandria’s Metrica

Courtney Roby

18 Galen’s Use of Hippocrates as an Anchor for Medical Innovation

Teun Tieleman

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Miko Flohr is lecturer in ancient history at Leiden University. He has published widely on urban history, crafts and technology in the Roman world, including The World of the Fullo. Work Economy and Society in Roman Italy (OUP 2013).

Stephan Mols is associate professor of Classical and Roman Archaeology at Radboud University Nijmegen and professor by special appointment in the History of Nijmegen, with special focus on the Roman Period and the Roman Limes.

Teun Tieleman is Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Medicine at Utrecht University. His research focuses on Galen of Pergamum and his influence, Stoicism, theories of emotion, ancient anthropology as well as the relation between ancient philosophy and early Christianity.

Contributors are: Miko Flohr, Stephan Mols, Teun Tieleman, James W. McAllister, Wiebe E. Bijker, Lorraine Daston, Ineke Sluiter, Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant, Serena Connolly, Mark de Kreij, Jill L. Baker, Maria Gerolemou, Anna Soifer, Rabun Taylor, Michiel Meeusen, Marianne Hopman, Giovanni Fanfani, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, Annapurna Mamidipudi, Courtney Robey.