03142nam 2200565 450 991046782100332120200923020339.03-11-054015-03-11-054193-910.1515/9783110541939(CKB)4340000000203620(MiAaPQ)EBC5049512(DE-B1597)480465(OCoLC)1004875836(DE-B1597)9783110541939(PPN)219912033(Au-PeEL)EBL5049512(CaPaEBR)ebr11443159(CaONFJC)MIL1036838(OCoLC)1004532826(EXLCZ)99434000000020362020171016h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierHellenistic science at court /Marquis BerreyBerlin, [Germany] ;Boston, [Massachusetts] :De Gruyter,2017.©20171 online resource (274 pages) illustrationsScience, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures,2194-976X ;Volume 53-11-053977-2 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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 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 science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity. Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ;Volume 5.ScienceEgyptEgyptIntellectual lifeElectronic books.Science962.05Berrey Marquis1047056MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910467821003321Hellenistic science at court2474401UNINA01175cam0 22003131 450 SOBE0008289420250505093726.088-8416-054-520250505d2003 |||||ita|0103 baitaITBotticelliAby Warburgtraduzione di Emma Cantimoricon uno scritto di Pierluigi De VecchiMilanoAbscondita2003127 p.ill.20 cmMiniature18001LAEC000181432001 *Miniature18Sandro Botticelliʼs Geburt der Venus und FrühlingSOBA0003347117168Warburg, AbyAF00003765070446037Cantimori Mezzomonti, EmmaA600200032819070De_Vecchi, PierluigiAF00009873070ITUNISOB20250505RICAUNISOBUNISOBFondo|Calì182675SOBE00082894M 102 Monografia moderna SBNMFondo|Calì000461SI18267520250327CaliDonoIrovitoUNISOBUNISOB20250505092022.020250505092102.0rovitoSandro Botticellis Geburt der Venus und Frühling17168UNISOB