The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden

Published by De Gruyter 2015

The Frontiers of Ancient Science

Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden

Edited by: Brooke Holmes and Klaus-Dietrich Fischer

Volume 338 in the series Beiträge zur Altertumskunde

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110336337

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Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.

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B. A. Holmes, Princeton University; K.-D. Fischer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz.

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"For the present reviewer, interested in medical history, the volume is rich and stimulating, ranging over many authors and insights. For other historians of science there are equally rich pickings in this wonderful, challenging volume, entirely befitting the honorand."
John Wilkins in: BMCR 2016.01.10

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	V
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	VII
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	XI
Egypt and the Medicinal Use of Papyrus According to Soranus and Other Physicians Isabella Andorlini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Medical Acculturation?: Early Greek Texts and the Question of Near Eastern Influence Markus Asper Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
“Hippocratic” Oaths?: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Medical Ethics in the Ancient World Han Baltussen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
Simplicius in Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Question Alan C. Bowen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	67
Aristotle and the Study of Animals and Plants Andrea Falcon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	75
A Case of Cultural (Mis)translation?: Egyptian Eyes on Two Greek Amulets for Ophthalmia Christopher A. Faraone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
Gesund durchs Jahr mit Dr. Hippokrates – Monat für Monat! Klaus-Dietrich Fischer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.6 Allan Gotthelf Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
Un ex-voto ophtalmologique inscrit à Rougiers (Var): pour une étude des maladies des yeux dans le monde gallo-romain Danielle Gourevitch and Philippe Charlier Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	175
Medicine and Misfortune: Symptōma in Greek Medical Writing Brooke Holmes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	191
Mathematics in Plato’s Republic Carl A. Huffman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	211
Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors Katerina Ierodiakonou Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Erotian, Reader of Hippocrates’ Prognostic: A New Discovery Jacques Jouanna Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
Aristotle’s Badger Joshua T. Katz Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics W. R. Laird Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body Helen Lang Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
“For sleep, in some way, is an epileptic seizure” (somn. vig. 3, 457a9‒10) Roberto Lo Presti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	339
Il Numen Augusti nel senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre Arnaldo Marcone Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	397
How Archytas Doubled the Cube Stephen Menn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	407
A Revised Astronomical Dating of Thessalus’ De virtutibus herbarum Ian S. Moyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	437
What’s in a Nomen?: Vlatadon 14 and an Old Theory Resurrected Vivian Nutton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	451
An Archaeological Meditation on Trepanation D. T. Potts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	463
Des listes pour apprendre, résoudre, classer, archiver, explorer ou inventer Christine Proust Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	493
Conceiving the History of Science Forward Francesca Rochberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	515
Galeno sull’autenticità del Prorretico I Amneris Roselli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	533
Hippokrateskommentare im 16. Jahrhundert: Peter Memms Eidkommentar als Paradigma eines gegenwartsbezogenen Genres Thomas Rütten Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	561
Technē and Method in Ancient Artillery Construction: The Belopoeica of Philo of Byzantium Mark J. Schiefsky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	615
Herrschaftskritik bei Galen Heinrich Schlange-Schöningen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	655
Galen on the Assessment of Bodily Mixtures Philip van der Eijk Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	675
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	699
Heinrich von Staden: Bibliography 1975–2012 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	707
Index locorum qui e scriptoribus antiquis et medii quod dicunt aevi Graecis atque Latinis citantur Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	713
General Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	737

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Languages: English, German, French
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: All those interested in ancient science and history of science and medicine.
Pages
- Front matter: 21
- Main content: 754
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 20
Keywords: History of mathematics; history of medicine

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Published: March 30, 2015
ISBN: 9783110336337

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Published: March 13, 2015
ISBN: 9783110333923

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Published: June 26, 2017
ISBN: 9783110559224