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The Frontiers of Ancient Science : Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden / ed. by Klaus-Dietrich Fischer, Brooke Holmes.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Beiträge zur Altertumskunde ; 338Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (754 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110333923
  • 9783110389302
  • 9783110336337
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  • Q124.95 .F76 2015
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Egypt and the Medicinal Use of Papyrus According to Soranus and Other Physicians -- Medical Acculturation?: Early Greek Texts and the Question of Near Eastern Influence -- “Hippocratic” Oaths?: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Medical Ethics in the Ancient World -- Simplicius in Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Question -- Aristotle and the Study of Animals and Plants -- A Case of Cultural (Mis)translation?: Egyptian Eyes on Two Greek Amulets for Ophthalmia -- Gesund durchs Jahr mit Dr. Hippokrates – Monat für Monat! -- Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.6 -- Un ex-voto ophtalmologique inscrit à Rougiers (Var): pour une étude des maladies des yeux dans le monde gallo-romain -- Medicine and Misfortune: Symptōma in Greek Medical Writing -- Mathematics in Plato’s Republic -- Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors -- Erotian, Reader of Hippocrates’ Prognostic: A New Discovery -- Aristotle’s Badger -- Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics -- Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body -- “For sleep, in some way, is an epileptic seizure” (somn. vig. 3, 457a9‒10) -- Il Numen Augusti nel senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre -- How Archytas Doubled the Cube -- A Revised Astronomical Dating of Thessalus’ De virtutibus herbarum -- What’s in a Nomen?: Vlatadon 14 and an Old Theory Resurrected -- An Archaeological Meditation on Trepanation -- Des listes pour apprendre, résoudre, classer, archiver, explorer ou inventer -- Conceiving the History of Science Forward -- Galeno sull’autenticità del Prorretico I -- Hippokrateskommentare im 16. Jahrhundert: Peter Memms Eidkommentar als Paradigma eines gegenwartsbezogenen Genres -- Technē and Method in Ancient Artillery Construction: The Belopoeica of Philo of Byzantium -- Herrschaftskritik bei Galen -- Galen on the Assessment of Bodily Mixtures -- Contributors -- Heinrich von Staden: Bibliography 1975–2012 -- Index locorum qui e scriptoribus antiquis et medii quod dicunt aevi Graecis atque Latinis citantur -- General Index
Summary: Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.
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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Egypt and the Medicinal Use of Papyrus According to Soranus and Other Physicians -- Medical Acculturation?: Early Greek Texts and the Question of Near Eastern Influence -- “Hippocratic” Oaths?: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Medical Ethics in the Ancient World -- Simplicius in Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Question -- Aristotle and the Study of Animals and Plants -- A Case of Cultural (Mis)translation?: Egyptian Eyes on Two Greek Amulets for Ophthalmia -- Gesund durchs Jahr mit Dr. Hippokrates – Monat für Monat! -- Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.6 -- Un ex-voto ophtalmologique inscrit à Rougiers (Var): pour une étude des maladies des yeux dans le monde gallo-romain -- Medicine and Misfortune: Symptōma in Greek Medical Writing -- Mathematics in Plato’s Republic -- Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors -- Erotian, Reader of Hippocrates’ Prognostic: A New Discovery -- Aristotle’s Badger -- Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics -- Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body -- “For sleep, in some way, is an epileptic seizure” (somn. vig. 3, 457a9‒10) -- Il Numen Augusti nel senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre -- How Archytas Doubled the Cube -- A Revised Astronomical Dating of Thessalus’ De virtutibus herbarum -- What’s in a Nomen?: Vlatadon 14 and an Old Theory Resurrected -- An Archaeological Meditation on Trepanation -- Des listes pour apprendre, résoudre, classer, archiver, explorer ou inventer -- Conceiving the History of Science Forward -- Galeno sull’autenticità del Prorretico I -- Hippokrateskommentare im 16. Jahrhundert: Peter Memms Eidkommentar als Paradigma eines gegenwartsbezogenen Genres -- Technē and Method in Ancient Artillery Construction: The Belopoeica of Philo of Byzantium -- Herrschaftskritik bei Galen -- Galen on the Assessment of Bodily Mixtures -- Contributors -- Heinrich von Staden: Bibliography 1975–2012 -- Index locorum qui e scriptoribus antiquis et medii quod dicunt aevi Graecis atque Latinis citantur -- General Index

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Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.

Issued also in print.

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