LEADER 04739nam 2200733 450 001 9910816170203321 005 20220516135306.0 010 $a3-11-029512-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110295122 035 $a(CKB)2670000000433125 035 $a(EBL)893122 035 $a(OCoLC)858761852 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001002648 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11570790 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001002648 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11015369 035 $a(PQKB)10908677 035 $a(DE-B1597)178498 035 $a(OCoLC)881295406 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110295122 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL893122 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10786180 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL807889 035 $z(PPN)202080838 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC893122 035 $a(PPN)175608377 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000433125 100 $a20131124h20132013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWriting science $emedical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece /$fedited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak 210 1$aBerlin :$cDe Gruyter,$d2013. 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (512 p.) 225 0 $aScience, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ;$v1 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a3-11-029513-X 311 0 $a3-11-029505-9 327 $tFront matter --$tPreface --$tContents --$tIntroduction --$tThe Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context --$tAncient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China --$tScholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder?s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia --$tWriting the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen --$tGalen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures --$tGalen on Poetic Testimony --$tThe Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries --$tAuthorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences --$tAccounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens --$tDiagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics --$tThree Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC --$tOn the Variety of ?Genres? of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse --$tSing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics --$tMaking up Progress ? in Ancient Greek Science Writing --$tIn Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond --$tNotes on Contributors --$tGeneral Index --$tIndex Locorum 330 $aScientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This applies to Classics, too, despite the fact that a large part of the field?s extant texts deal with questions of medicine, mathematics, and natural philosophy. Focusing mostly on medical and mathematical texts, this collection aims at approaching ancient Greek science and its texts from the cross-disciplinary perspective of authorship. Among the questions addressed are: What is a scientific author? In what respect does scientific writing differ from ?literary? writing? How does the author present himself as an authoritative figure through his text? What strategies of trust do these authors employ? These and related questions cannot be discussed within the typical boundaries of modern academic disciplines, thus most of the sixteen authors, many of them leading experts in the fields of ancient science, bring a comparative perspective to their subjects. As a result, the collection not only offers a new approach to this vast area of ancient literature, thus effectively discovering new possibilities for literary criticism, it also reflects on our current forms of scientific and scholarly written communication. 410 0$aScience, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures 606 $aMathematics, Greek 606 $aMedicine, Greek and Roman 606 $aScience$zGreece$xHistory 610 $aGreek Literature. 610 $aHistory of Science. 610 $aRhetoric. 615 0$aMathematics, Greek. 615 0$aMedicine, Greek and Roman. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 676 $a808.06 676 $a808.06650938 686 $aFB 4121$2rvk 701 $aAsper$b Markus$0204908 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816170203321 996 $aWriting science$94080975 997 $aUNINA