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Berrey Marquis |
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Hellenistic science at court / / Marquis Berrey |
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Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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ISBN |
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3-11-054015-0 |
3-11-054193-9 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (274 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures, , 2194-976X ; ; Volume 5 |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Science - Egypt |
Egypt Intellectual life |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Simmias the Elephant-Hunter and Other People at the Court of Ptolemy -- 2. Kingship, Symposia, Gift-Exchange: Parameters of Friendship -- 3. An Entertaining Genre -- 4. Technology and Performance in Eratosthenes and Andreas -- 5. Herophilus’ Pulse and Archimedes’ Mechanized Mathematics -- Epilogue -- Editions of Primary Sources -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Rerum |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court |
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science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity. |
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