Asper Writing Science

Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-11-029512-2
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, Band 1, 510 Seiten

Reihe: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient CulturesISSN

Zielgruppe

Academics, Institutes, Libraries

Autoren/Hrsg.

Asper, Markus

Weitere Mitwirkende

Kanthak, Anna-Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Naturphilosophie, Philosophie und Evolution
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Allgemein Geschichte der Mathematik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Geschichte der Medizin
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Allgemeines Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Formalen Wissenschaften & Technik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Introduction;9
2;A. Comparisons;23
2.1;The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context;25
2.2;Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China;71
2.3;Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia;91
3;B. Greek Medical Writing;117
3.1;Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen;119
3.2;Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures;153
3.3;Galen on Poetic Testimony-;185
3.4;The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries-;199
4;C. Greek Mathematical Writing;223
4.1;Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences;225
4.2;Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens;263
4.3;Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics;287
4.4;Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC;307
5;D. Science Writing as/and Literature;339
5.1;On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse;341
5.2;Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics;375
5.3;Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing;419
5.4;In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond;439
6;Notes on Contributors;481
7;General Index;485
8;Index Locorum;493

Über Autor(innen)

Markus Asper, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.