Coming to Terms: Approaches to (Ancient) Terminologies

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Coming to Terms

Approaches to (Ancient) Terminologies

Edited by: Markus Asper

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2024

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Volume 14 | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures

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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 new ground, Coming to Terms collects eleven articles that combine an interest in the history of knowledge, mostly ancient Greek, with research on scientific terminologies. They all share an interest in terminological practices, that is, questions such as how and when to coin a term and then what to do with it. Among the fields discussed are astronomy, the Roman surveyors, Aristotelian science, Renaissance and modern biology, contemporary medicine, ancient Chinese philosophy, 20^th-century physics, and colonial linguistics. Confronting ancient with modern terminologies, the collection intends to test integrative interpretive approaches. Thus, the collection documents how rich ancient (and modern) terminologies are and shows that they are, beyond lexicography, worth being studied per se.

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Markus Asper, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Markus Asper Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Introduction Coming to Terms: Approaching (Ancient) Terminologies Markus Asper Open Access Download PDF	1
The Language of Astronomy Francesca Schironi Open Access Download PDF	11
Terminology in the Wild: Enactive Meaning-Making in the Roman Surveyors Courtney Roby Open Access Download PDF	41
Rich Names: Implications of Terminology in Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Medicine, and Siege Lore Markus Asper Open Access Download PDF	67
The Problem of Biological Terminology in Aristotle’s De generatione animalium (On Generation of Animals) Sabine Föllinger Open Access Download PDF	85
Coming to Terms with Aristotle: Technical Terminology in the Poetics and Beyond Loren D. Marsh Open Access Download PDF	101
Form, Terminology, and Clarity in Aristotle Open Access Download PDF	131
Scientific Nomenclature of Species and Naming Practices in (Ancient) Biology Marcel Humar Open Access Download PDF	183
The Rise of Botanical Terminology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Dominik Berrens Open Access Download PDF	205
Terminology and Professionalism in Technologized Medicine Werner Golder Open Access Download PDF	227
Everyday Language and Technical Terminology: Reflective Abstractions in the Long-Term History of Spatial Terms Matthias Schemmel Open Access Download PDF	243
Epikhartika: About Language on Maps with Special Reference to Colonial Matters Thomas Stolz and Ingo H. Warnke Open Access Download PDF	259
Notes on Contributors Open Access Download PDF	297
Index Open Access Download PDF	299

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eBook published on:

December 31, 2023

eBook ISBN:

9783111314532

Hardcover published on:

December 31, 2023

Hardcover ISBN:

9783111291864

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

8

Main content:

304

Illustrations:

11

Coloured Illustrations:

4

Coloured Line drawings:

3

Coloured Maps:

8

Tables:

5

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111314532

eBook ISBN: 9783111314532

Hardcover ISBN: 9783111291864

Keywords for this book

terminology; ancient science; Aristotle

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Classicists, historians of science, philosophers, linguists

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