Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics

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1. Frontmatter I
2. Preface V
3. Table of Contents VII
4. Abbreviations XI
5. Egypt and the Medicinal Use of Papyrus According to Soranus and Other Physicians 1
6. Medical Acculturation?: Early Greek Texts and the Question of Near Eastern Influence 19
7. “Hippocratic” Oaths?: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Medical Ethics in the Ancient World 47
8. Simplicius in Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Question 67
9. Aristotle and the Study of Animals and Plants 75
10. A Case of Cultural (Mis)translation?: Egyptian Eyes on Two Greek Amulets for Ophthalmia 93
11. Gesund durchs Jahr mit Dr. Hippokrates – Monat für Monat! 111
12. Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.6 139
13. Un ex-voto ophtalmologique inscrit à Rougiers (Var): pour une étude des maladies des yeux dans le monde gallo-romain 175
14. Medicine and Misfortune: Symptōma in Greek Medical Writing 191
15. Mathematics in Plato’s Republic 211
16. Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors 227
17. Erotian, Reader of Hippocrates’ Prognostic: A New Discovery 251
18. Aristotle’s Badger 267
19. Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics 289
20. Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body 307
21. “For sleep, in some way, is an epileptic seizure” (somn. vig. 3, 457a9‒10) 339
22. Il Numen Augusti nel senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre 397
23. How Archytas Doubled the Cube 407
24. A Revised Astronomical Dating of Thessalus’ De virtutibus herbarum 437
25. What’s in a Nomen?: Vlatadon 14 and an Old Theory Resurrected 451
26. An Archaeological Meditation on Trepanation 463
27. Des listes pour apprendre, résoudre, classer, archiver, explorer ou inventer 493
28. Conceiving the History of Science Forward 515
29. Galeno sull’autenticità del Prorretico I 533
30. Hippokrateskommentare im 16. Jahrhundert: Peter Memms Eidkommentar als Paradigma eines gegenwartsbezogenen Genres 561
31. Technē and Method in Ancient Artillery Construction: The Belopoeica of Philo of Byzantium 615
32. Herrschaftskritik bei Galen 655
33. Galen on the Assessment of Bodily Mixtures 675
34. Contributors 699
35. Heinrich von Staden: Bibliography 1975–2012 707
36. Index locorum qui e scriptoribus antiquis et medii quod dicunt aevi Graecis atque Latinis citantur 713
37. General Index 737