LEADER 03240nam 2200601 450 001 9910809693503321 005 20200923020339.0 010 $a3-11-054015-0 010 $a3-11-054193-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110541939 035 $a(CKB)4340000000203620 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5049512 035 $a(DE-B1597)480465 035 $a(OCoLC)1004875836 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110541939 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5049512 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11443159 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL1036838 035 $a(OCoLC)1004532826 035 $a(PPN)219912033 035 $a(EXLCZ)994340000000203620 100 $a20171016h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aHellenistic science at court /$fMarquis Berrey 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2017. 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (274 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aScience, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures,$x2194-976X ;$vVolume 5 311 $a3-11-053977-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Simmias the Elephant-Hunter and Other People at the Court of Ptolemy -- $t2. Kingship, Symposia, Gift-Exchange: Parameters of Friendship -- $t3. An Entertaining Genre -- $t4. Technology and Performance in Eratosthenes and Andreas -- $t5. Herophilus? Pulse and Archimedes? Mechanized Mathematics -- $tEpilogue -- $tEditions of Primary Sources -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex Locorum -- $tIndex Rerum 330 $aThe development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity. 410 0$aScience, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ;$vVolume 5. 606 $aScience$zEgypt 607 $aEgypt$xIntellectual life 610 $aHellenistic science. 610 $aInterdisciplinarity. 610 $acourt society. 610 $aemergence. 615 0$aScience 676 $a962.05 700 $aBerrey$b Marquis$01602223 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910809693503321 996 $aHellenistic science at court$93926120 997 $aUNINA