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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : électronique
Titre(s) : Writing Science [Texte électronique] : Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece
Publication : Berlin : De Gruyter, 2013
Description matérielle : 1 online resource (512 pages)
Collection : Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
Note(s) : 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
c.
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Asper, Markus (1968-....). Éditeur scientifique
Sujet(s) : Mathématiques antiques
Sciences antiques
Médecine ancienne
Oeuvres scientifiques -- Grèce -- Antiquité
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9783110295122
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb443381022
Notice n° :
FRBNF44338102
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : 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 WritingIn Strange Lands: Disembodied
Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond; Notes
on Contributors; General Index; Index Locorum.
