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The Frontiers of Ancient Science

Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden
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Languages: English, German, French
Published/Copyright: 2015
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Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

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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.

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B. A. Holmes, Princeton University; K.-D. Fischer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

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"For the present reviewer, interested in medical history, the volume is rich and stimulating, ranging over many authors and insights. For other historians of science there are equally rich pickings in this wonderful, challenging volume, entirely befitting the honorand."
John Wilkins in: BMCR 2016.01.10

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    Frontmatter

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    Preface

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    Table of Contents

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    Abbreviations

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    Egypt and the Medicinal Use of Papyrus According to Soranus and Other Physicians

    1
    Isabella Andorlini
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    Medical Acculturation?: Early Greek Texts and the Question of Near Eastern Influence

    19
    Markus Asper
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    “Hippocratic” Oaths?: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Medical Ethics in the Ancient World

    47
    Han Baltussen
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    Simplicius in Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Question

    67
    Alan C. Bowen
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    Aristotle and the Study of Animals and Plants

    75
    Andrea Falcon
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    A Case of Cultural (Mis)translation?: Egyptian Eyes on Two Greek Amulets for Ophthalmia

    93
    Christopher A. Faraone
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    Gesund durchs Jahr mit Dr. Hippokrates – Monat für Monat!

    111
    Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
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    Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.6

    139
    Allan Gotthelf
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    Un ex-voto ophtalmologique inscrit à Rougiers (Var): pour une étude des maladies des yeux dans le monde gallo-romain

    175
    Danielle Gourevitch and Philippe Charlier
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    Medicine and Misfortune: Symptōma in Greek Medical Writing

    191
    Brooke Holmes
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    Mathematics in Plato’s Republic

    211
    Carl A. Huffman
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    Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors

    227
    Katerina Ierodiakonou
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    Erotian, Reader of Hippocrates’ Prognostic: A New Discovery

    251
    Jacques Jouanna
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    Aristotle’s Badger

    267
    Joshua T. Katz
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    Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics

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    W. R. Laird
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    Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body

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    Helen Lang
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    “For sleep, in some way, is an epileptic seizure” (somn. vig. 3, 457a9‒10)

    339
    Roberto Lo Presti
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    Il Numen Augusti nel senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre

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    Arnaldo Marcone
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    How Archytas Doubled the Cube

    407
    Stephen Menn
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    A Revised Astronomical Dating of Thessalus’ De virtutibus herbarum

    437
    Ian S. Moyer
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    What’s in a Nomen?: Vlatadon 14 and an Old Theory Resurrected

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    Vivian Nutton
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    An Archaeological Meditation on Trepanation

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    D. T. Potts
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    Des listes pour apprendre, résoudre, classer, archiver, explorer ou inventer

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    Christine Proust
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    Conceiving the History of Science Forward

    515
    Francesca Rochberg
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    Galeno sull’autenticità del Prorretico I

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    Amneris Roselli
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    Hippokrateskommentare im 16. Jahrhundert: Peter Memms Eidkommentar als Paradigma eines gegenwartsbezogenen Genres

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    Thomas Rütten
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    Technē and Method in Ancient Artillery Construction: The Belopoeica of Philo of Byzantium

    615
    Mark J. Schiefsky
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    Herrschaftskritik bei Galen

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    Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen
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    Galen on the Assessment of Bodily Mixtures

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    Philip van der Eijk
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    Contributors

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    Heinrich von Staden: Bibliography 1975–2012

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    Index locorum qui e scriptoribus antiquis et medii quod dicunt aevi Graecis atque Latinis citantur

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    General Index

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eBook published on:
March 30, 2015
eBook ISBN:
9783110336337
Hardcover published on:
March 13, 2015
Hardcover ISBN:
9783110333923
Paperback published on:
June 26, 2017
Paperback ISBN:
9783110559224
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Front matter:
21
Main content:
754
Illustrations:
20
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110336337
eBook ISBN: 9783110336337
Hardcover ISBN: 9783110333923
Paperback ISBN: 9783110559224
Keywords for this book
History of mathematics; history of medicine
Audience(s) for this book
All those interested in ancient science and history of science and medicine.
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