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Greek science in the long run [electronic resource]

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Greek traditions relating to both the arts and sciences of life and health and those regarding the systematic development of theories of measurement and quantification enjoyed an incredibly long reputation and showed a kind of versatility that challenges any simplistic, dogmatic or a priori viewpoint about the meaning and social function of systematic knowledge. In this sense, they allow us to focus on very specific traits of the multiple processes of production, textual arrangement and trans...

Title Greek science in the long run [electronic resource] : essays on the Greek scientific tradition (4th c. BCE-17th c. CE) / edited by Paula Olmos.
Additional Titles Essays on the Greek scientific tradition
Publisher Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Press
Creation Date c2012
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references.
English
Content TABLE OF CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
PART I
CATEGORICAL ANACHRONISMS AND THEIR CONSEQUENCES FOR THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
ANCIENT GREECE AND GENDER STUDIES
THE FIELD OF ARGUMENTATION
STOCHASTIC KNOWLEDGE
EUGE, GRAECULI NOSTRI!
GIORGIO VALLA, EDITOR AND TRANSLATOR OF ANCIENT SCIENTIFIC TEXTS
PART II
THE MORE IT CHANGES
MUSICAL TERMINOLOGY IN PLATO'S DIALOGUES
ON PTOLEMY'S HARMONICS 2.4
EUCLID'S SWAN SONG
PART III
PHILOSOPHY AND TELEOLOGY
PHARMAKA
GALEN ON BODY, TEMPERAMENTS AND PERSONALITIES
KNOWING THE BODY
THE FORUM VULCANI IN THE WORK OF JUAN HUARTE
CONTRIBUTORS
Extent 1 online resource (335 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010700431905171
MARC RECORDS
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