Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures – serie
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21 produkter
In the Wake of the Compendia
Infrastructural Contexts and the Licensing of Empiricism in Ancient and Medieval Mesopotamia
Inbunden, 2015
1881 kr
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In the Wake of the Compendia presents papers that examine the history of technical compendia as they moved between institutions and societies in ancient and medieval Mesopotamia.This volume offers new perspectives on the development and transmission of technical compilations, looking especially at …
Collecting Recipes
Byzantine and Jewish Pharmacology in Dialogue
Av Lennart Lehmhaus, Matteo Martelli
Inbunden, 2017
1791 kr
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With a clear comparative approach, this volume brings together for the first time contributions that cover different periods of the history of ancient pharmacology, from Greek, Byzantine, and Syriac medicine to the Rabbinic-Talmudic medical discourses. This collection opens up new synchronic and …
Melothesia in Babylonia
Medicine, Magic, and Astrology in the Ancient Near East
Inbunden, 2014
1351 kr
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This monograph begins with a puzzle: a Babylonian text from late 5th century BCE Uruk associating various diseases with bodily organs, which has evaded interpretation. The correct answer may reside in Babylonian astrology, since the development of the zodiac in the late 5th century BCE offered …
Writing Science
Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece
Av Markus Asper
Inbunden, 2013
1919 kr
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Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This applies to Classics, too, despite the fact that a large part of the field’s extant texts deal with questions of medicine, mathematics, and natural philosophy. Focusing mostly on medical and …
Hellenistic Science at Court
Inbunden, 2017
1962 kr
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The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around …
ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī's Book on the Useful Properties of Animal Parts
Edition, translation and study of a fluid tradition
Inbunden, 2019
3693 kr
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The ‘Science of properties’ represents a large and fascinating part of Arabic technical literature. The book of ʿĪsā ibn ʿAlī (9th cent.) ‘On the useful properties of animal parts’ was the first of such compositions in Arabic. His author was a Syriac physician, disciple of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq, who …
Syrische Astrologie und das Syrische Medizinbuch
Inbunden, 2018
2542 kr
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Erstmals wird eine Gesamtschau der Astrologie in der syrisch-orthodoxen Literatur geboten. Die Frage, ob alte mesopotamische oder ägyptische Vorläufer in dieser Literatur aufgegangen sind, begleitet die historische Einführung in Astrologie und Divination. Auch wenn die Astrologie als "scientia non …
Revolutions and Continuity in Greek Mathematics
Inbunden, 2018
2542 kr
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This volume brings together a number of leading scholars working in the field of ancient Greek mathematics to present their latest research. In their respective area of specialization, all contributors offer stimulating approaches to questions of historical and historiographical ‘revolutions’ and …
Mathematische Modellierung bei Platon zwischen Thales und Euklid
Inbunden, 2019
2081 kr
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Wissenschaftliche Mathematik ist eine der wichtigsten Kulturleistungen des antiken Griechenland. Doch wann und wo genau hatte sie ihren Ursprung? Die Einschätzung der Antike, zwischen Thales und Euklid habe Platon eine maßgebliche Rolle gespielt, gilt als Fiktion. Diese Studie wirft einen neuen, …
Visualizing the invisible with the human body
Physiognomy and ekphrasis in the ancient world
Av J. Cale Johnson, Alessandro Stavru
Inbunden, 2019
1962 kr
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Physiognomy and ekphrasis are two of the most important modes of description in antiquity and represent the necessary precursors of scientific description. The primary way of divining the characteristics and fate of an individual, whether inborn or acquired, was to observe the patient’s external …
Thinking in Cases
Ancient Greek and Imperial Chinese Case Narratives
Av Markus Asper
Inbunden, 2020
1569 kr
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Who is afraid of case literature? In an influential article ("Thinking in Cases", 1996), John Forrester made a case for studying case literature more seriously, exemplifying his points, mostly, with casuistic traditions of law. Unlike in modern literatures, case collections make up a significant …
Hellenistic Science at Court
Häftad, 2019
360 kr
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The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around …
Form and Clarity in Euclid’s ›Elements‹
Inbunden, 2024
2943 kr
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As of yet, the remarkable and highly influential textual form of Euclidean mathematics has not been considered from a literary-aesthetic perspective. By its extreme standardization and seeming non-literariness it appears to defy such an approach. This book nonetheless attempts precisely a …
Aetius of Amida on Diseases of the Brain
Translation and Commentary of ›Libri medicinales‹ 6.1–10 with Introduction
Inbunden, 2022
2158 kr
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In earlier scholarship, the late antique medical compilations of Oribasius of Pergamon, Aetius of Amida and Paul of Aegina were rather neglected and were believed to add nothing new themselves to what Galen, in particular, had to say. By now, scholarship has undergone a positive change in attitude …
Poikile Physis
Biological Literature in Greek during the Roman Empire: Genres, Scopes, and Problems
Av Diego De Brasi, Francesco Fronterotta
Inbunden, 2022
1640 kr
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Biological literature of the Roman imperial period remains somehow ‘underestimated’. It is even quite difficult to speak of biological literature for this period at all: biology (apart from medicine) did not represent, indeed, a specific ‘subgenre’ of scientific literature. Nevertheless, writings …
Coming to Terms
Approaches to (Ancient) Terminologies
Av Markus Asper
Inbunden, 2023
1904 kr
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Terminologies present various challenges to their inventors and to their users, ranging from epistemic adequacy over linguistic concerns to matters of strategy and group construction. With respect to historical terminologies, however, research has been dominated by linguistic approaches. Breaking …
Perplexing Remedies in Ancient Medicine
›Dreckapotheke‹ in Mesopotamia and the Graeco-Roman World
Inbunden, 2024
2392 kr
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The topic of a potential relationship between Babylonian and Greco-Roman medicine has been discussed for a long time, yet it is notoriously difficult to give it flesh and bones by means of concrete examples. The main goal of this study is to identify real elements in the therapeutical traditions of …
Proclus, ›Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum‹
Introduction, Text, Translation, and Commentary with a Study of the Diagrams and Illustrations
Inbunden, 2025
2385 kr
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Proclus’ Hypotyposis Astronomicarum Positionum, a late antique astronomical treatise, has been transmitted through Byzantine codices which usually record it among mathematical, philosophical or historical works. In the modern era, specific passages of the Hypotyposis have attracted the interest of …
Medicine in Words
Technical Terminology in Material and Textual Evidence from the Greco-Roman World
Av Isabella Bonati, Gabriel A. F. Silva
Inbunden, 2026
1693 kr
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This volume explores the technical vocabulary of Graeco-Roman medicine through an in-depth and inclusive analysis of its sources, both textual and material. Attention is paid to the importance of the concrete reality of medicine as expressed in the words of ancient medical texts, looking for the …
Medicine in the Babylonian Talmud
The Cuneiform Legacy
Inbunden, 2026
1693 kr
Kommande
Talmudic medicine in Aramaic originating in Babylonia can be traceable back to cuneiform tablets and ancient Babylonian medicine, essentially unaffected by Western medicine. A general survey of Talmudic medicine finds it to be based upon 'local' Babylonian medicine, rather than medical traditions …
Learned Emperors
Science, Technology, and Power at the Roman Imperial Court
Inbunden, 2025
1988 kr
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Science and technology were a source of power to Julio-Claudian emperors: professions of knowledge, discernment, and mastery of them enabled emperors to delight, entertain, awe, and even terrify their subjects. Early modern historians have explored the ways in which various European rulers employed …
