Writing Science (eBook)

Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece

Markus Asper (Herausgeber)

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2013
510 Seiten
De Gruyter (Verlag)
978-3-11-029512-2 (ISBN)

Infos

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 communication current today.

Markus Asper, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Autor

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Markus Asper, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Inhalt

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

Rezensionen

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"The rich collection of topics, the diversity of backgrounds and approaches to scientific writing and its narratology, the inclusion of several different disciplines of ancient science, and the impressive learning which pervades the collection make this volume a welcome addition to the bibliography of ancient science and its Nachleben."
Konstantinos Kapparis in: BMCR 2014.12.08

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 26.6.2013
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: ISSN
• Reihe/Serie: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
• Reihe/Serie: Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures
• Co-Autor: Anna-Maria Kanthak
• Zusatzinfo: 5 b/w and 5 col. ill.
• Verlagsort: Berlin/Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Latein / Altgriechisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Greek Literature • Griechische Literatur • History of Science • rhetoric • Rhetorik • Wissenschaftsgeschichte
• ISBN-10: 3-11-029512-1 / 3110295121
• ISBN-13: 978-3-11-029512-2 / 9783110295122