Science And Mathematics In Ancient Greek Culture
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Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
Author | : Christopher Tuplin,Tracey Elizabeth Rihll |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0198152485 |
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Ancient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international experts, examines the role and achievement of science and mathematics in Greek antiquity through discussion of the linguistic, literary, political, religious, sociological, and technological factors which influenced scientific thought and practice.
Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
Author | : Christopher Tuplin,Tracey Elizabeth Rihll |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Mathematics, Greek |
ISBN | : 0191710040 |
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With contributions from a number of respected scholars, these papers locate science within ancient Greek society and culture. The writers investigate its impact upon that society and argue that it was both motivated and constrained by unscientific cultural interests and affected by the paradigms of the day.
Writing Science
Author | : Markus Asper |
Publsiher | : Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2013-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9783110295122 |
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Scientific 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.
Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece
Author | : George Sarton |
Publsiher | : Courier Corporation |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2012-10-16 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780486144986 |
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Remarkably readable, thoroughly documented, and well illustrated, this fascinating book by an eminent science historian covers problems of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and biology.
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Mathematics
Author | : Eleanor Robson,Jacqueline Stedall |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press on Demand |
Total Pages | : 927 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199213122 |
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This handbook explores the history of mathematics, addressing what mathematics has been and what it has meant to practise it. 36 self-contained chapters provide a fascinating overview of 5000 years of mathematics and its key cultures for academics in mathematics, historians of science, and general historians.
The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy
Author | : Sylvia Berryman |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2009-08-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521763769 |
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This book argues against the assumption that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously.
Sourcebook in the Mathematics of Ancient Greece and the Eastern Mediterranean
Author | : Victor J. Katz |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 9780691202815 |
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"In recent decades, there has been extensive research on Greek mathematics that has considerably enlarged the scope of this area of inquiry. Traditionally, "Greek mathematics" has referred to the axiomatic work of Archimedes, Apollonius, and others in the first three centuries BCE. However, there is a wide body of mathematical work that appeared in the eastern Mediterranean during the time it was under Greek influence (from approximately 400 BCE to 600 CE), which remains under-explored in the existing scholarship. This sourcebook provides an updated look at Greek mathematics, bringing together classic Greek texts with material from lesser-known authors, as well as newly uncovered texts that have been omitted in previous scholarship. The book adopts a broad scope in defining mathematical practice, and as such, includes fields such as music, optics, and architecture. It includes important sources written in languages other than Greek in the eastern Mediterranean area during the period from 400 BCE to 600 CE, which show some influence from Greek culture. It also includes passages that highlight the important role mathematics played in philosophy, pedagogy, and popular culture. The book is organized topically; chapters include arithmetic, plane geometry, astronomy, and philosophy, literature, and education. Within each chapter, the (translated) texts are organized chronologically. The book weaves together ancient commentary on classic Greek works with the works themselves to show how the understanding of mathematical ideas changed over the centuries"--
The Monochord in Ancient Greek Harmonic Science
Author | : David Creese |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 427 |
Release | : 2010-06-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521843249 |
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Traces the history of the monochord from its earliest appearance to Claudius Ptolemy (mid-second century AD).