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Ancient Science and Dreams
Author | : Mark Holowchak |
Publsiher | : University Press of America |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0761821570 |
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In Ancient Science and Dreams, M. Andrew Holowchak analyzes the ancient notion of science of dreams throughout Greco-Roman antiquity, from the Classical Greece in the fifth century B.C. to the Roman Republic in the fourth century A.D. Holowchak investigates psycho-physiological accounts, interpretation of prophetic dreams, and the use of dreams in secular and non-secular medicine. Culling from some of the fullest and most important accounts of dreams and ordering the presentation in each section chronologically, the author analyzes the extent to which empirical and non-empirical factors guided ancient accounts in Greco-Roman antiquity.
Gods and Robots
Author | : Adrienne Mayor |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 294 |
Release | : 2020-04-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780691202266 |
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Traces the story of how ancient cultures envisioned artificial life, automata, self-moving devices and human enhancements, sharing insights into how the mythologies of the past related to and shaped ancient machine innovations.
A Companion to Science Technology and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome 2 Volume Set
Author | : Georgia L. Irby |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 1111 |
Release | : 2019-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781119100706 |
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A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh perspective to the study of science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives Begins coverage in 600 BCE and includes sections on the later Roman Empire and beyond, featuring discussion of the transmission and reception of these ideas into the Renaissance Investigates key disciplines, concepts, and movements in ancient science, technology, and medicine within the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Greek and Roman society Organizes its content in two halves: the first focuses on mathematical and natural sciences; the second focuses on cultural applications and interdisciplinary themes 2 Volumes
A Companion to Science Technology and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome
Author | : Georgia L. Irby |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 1112 |
Release | : 2016-01-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781118373040 |
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A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh perspective to the study of science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives Begins coverage in 600 BCE and includes sections on the later Roman Empire and beyond, featuring discussion of the transmission and reception of these ideas into the Renaissance Investigates key disciplines, concepts, and movements in ancient science, technology, and medicine within the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Greek and Roman society Organizes its content in two halves: the first focuses on mathematical and natural sciences; the second focuses on cultural applications and interdisciplinary themes 2 Volumes
The Oracle of Night
Author | : Sidarta Ribeiro,Daniel Hahn |
Publsiher | : Pantheon |
Total Pages | : 487 |
Release | : 2021-08-17 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781524746919 |
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A groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and their essential role in the formation of who we are and the world we have made. "A resounding case for the mystery, beauty and cognitive importance of dreams." —The New York Times What is a dream? Why do we dream? How do our bodies and minds use them? These questions are the starting point for this unprecedented study of the role and significance of this phenomenon. An investigation on a grand scale, it encompasses literature, anthropology, religion, and science, articulating the essential place dreams occupy in human culture and how they functioned as the catalyst that compelled us to transform our earthly habitat into a human world. From the earliest cave paintings—where Sidarta Ribeiro locates a key to humankind’s first dreams and how they contributed to our capacity to perceive past and future and our ability to conceive of the existence of souls and spirits—to today’s cutting-edge scientific research, Ribeiro arrives at revolutionary conclusions about the role of dreams in human existence and evolution. He explores the advances that contemporary neuroscience, biochemistry, and psychology have made into the connections between sleep, dreams, and learning. He explains what dreams have taught us about the neural basis of memory and the transformation of memory in recall. And he makes clear that the earliest insight into dreams as oracular has been elucidated by contemporary research. Accessible, authoritative, and fascinating, The Oracle of Night gives us a wholly new way to understand this most basic of human experiences.
Dreams and History
Author | : Daniel Pick,Lyndal Roper |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2004-08-02 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 9781135452155 |
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Dreams and History contains important new scholarship on Freud's Interpretation of Dreams (1900) and subsequent psychoanalytical approaches from distinguished historians, psychoanalysts, historians of science and anthropologists.
The Fabric of Dreams
Author | : Katherine Taylor Craig |
Publsiher | : Courier Dover Publications |
Total Pages | : 402 |
Release | : 2018-05-16 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 9780486824222 |
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Originally published in 1918, this fascinating blend of science and spirituality compiles dream-related information from many sources. Contents include discussions of clairvoyance, hypnotic sleep, narcotics, and dream interpretation plus a dream dictionary.
Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity
Author | : William V. Harris |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2009-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674264335 |
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From the Iliad to Aristophanes, from the gospel of Matthew to Augustine, Greek and Latin texts are constellated with descriptive images of dreams. Some are formulaic, others intensely vivid. The best ancient minds—Plato, Aristotle, the physician Galen, and others—struggled to understand the meaning of dreams. With Dreams and Experience in Classical Antiquity the renowned ancient historian William Harris turns his attention to oneiric matters. This cultural history of dreams in antiquity draws on both contemporary post-Freudian science and careful critiques of the ancient texts. Harris traces the history of characteristic forms of dream-description and relates them both to the ancient experience of dreaming and to literary and religious imperatives. He analyzes the nuances of Greek and Roman belief in the truth-telling potential of dreams, and in a final chapter offers an assessment of ancient attempts to understand dreams naturalistically. How did dreaming culture evolve from Homer’s time to late antiquity? What did these dreams signify? And how do we read and understand ancient dreams through modern eyes? Harris takes an elusive subject and writes about it with rigor and precision, reminding us of specificities, contexts, and changing attitudes through history.