Coming to terms : approaches to (ancient) terminologies / / edited by Markus Asper

• Pubblicazione: De Gruyter; Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2023]; 2024
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages)
• Disciplina: 509.30014
• Soggetto topico: Science, Ancient - Terminology; Aristoteles; Terminologie; antike Wissenschaft; Sciences anciennes - Terminologie; HISTORY / Ancient / General
• Persona (resp. second.): AsperMarkus
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Language of Astronomy -- Terminology in the Wild: Enactive Meaning-Making in the Roman Surveyors -- Rich Names: Implications of Terminology in Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Medicine, and Siege Lore -- The Problem of Biological Terminology in Aristotle's De generatione animalium (On Generation of Animals) -- Coming to Terms with Aristotle: Technical Terminology in the Poetics and Beyond -- Form, Terminology, and Clarity in Aristotle -- Scientific Nomenclature of Species and Naming Practices in (Ancient) Biology ; The Rise of Botanical Terminology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries -- Terminology and Professionalism in Technologized Medicine -- Everyday Language and Technical Terminology: Reflective Abstractions in the Long-Term History of Spatial Terms -- Epikhartika: About Language on Maps with Special Reference to Colonial Matters -- Notes on Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Terminologies present various challenges to their inventors and to their users, ranging from epistemic adequacy over linguistic concerns to matters of strategy and group construction. With respect to historical terminologies, however, research has been dominated by linguistic approaches. Breaking new ground, Coming to Terms collects eleven articles that combine an interest in the history of knowledge, mostly ancient Greek, with research on scientific terminologies. They all share an interest in terminological practices, that is, questions such as how and when to coin a term and then what to do with it. Among the fields discussed are astronomy, the Roman surveyors, Aristotelian science, Renaissance and modern biology, contemporary medicine, ancient Chinese philosophy, 20th-century physics, and colonial linguistics. Confronting ancient with modern terminologies, the collection intends to test integrative interpretive approaches. Thus, the collection documents how rich ancient (and modern) terminologies are and shows that they are, beyond lexicography, worth being studied per se.
• Titolo autorizzato: Coming to terms
• ISBN: 9783111314785
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910838175903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ; ; v. 14.