Coming to terms : approaches to (ancient) terminologies / / edited by Markus Asper
| Coming to terms : approaches to (ancient) terminologies / / edited by Markus Asper |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | De Gruyter |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (viii, 304 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509.30014 |
| Collana | Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Science, Ancient - Terminology
Aristoteles Terminologie antike Wissenschaft Sciences anciennes - Terminologie HISTORY / Ancient / General |
| ISBN | 9783111314785 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| 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 |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910838175903321 |
| De Gruyter | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak
| Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
| Disciplina |
808.06
808.06650938 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AsperMarkus |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Greek
Medicine, Greek and Roman Science - Greece - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN | 3-11-029512-1 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context -- Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China -- Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia -- Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen -- Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures -- Galen on Poetic Testimony -- The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries -- Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences -- Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens -- Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics -- Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC -- On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse -- Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics -- Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing -- In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910462669203321 |
| Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak
| Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
| Disciplina |
808.06
808.06650938 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AsperMarkus |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Greek
Medicine, Greek and Roman Science - Greece - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Greek Literature
History of Science Rhetoric |
| ISBN | 3-11-029512-1 |
| Classificazione | FB 4121 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context -- Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China -- Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia -- Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen -- Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures -- Galen on Poetic Testimony -- The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries -- Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences -- Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens -- Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics -- Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC -- On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse -- Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics -- Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing -- In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910787652803321 |
| Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak
| Writing science : medical and mathematical authorship in ancient Greece / / edited by Markus Asper in collaboration with Anna-Maria Kanthak |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (512 p.) |
| Disciplina |
808.06
808.06650938 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | AsperMarkus |
| Collana | Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics, Greek
Medicine, Greek and Roman Science - Greece - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Greek Literature
History of Science Rhetoric |
| ISBN | 3-11-029512-1 |
| Classificazione | FB 4121 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context -- Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China -- Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia -- Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen -- Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures -- Galen on Poetic Testimony -- The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries -- Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences -- Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens -- Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics -- Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC -- On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse -- Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics -- Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing -- In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910816170203321 |
| Berlin : , : De Gruyter, , 2013 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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