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The Oxford handbook of science and medicine in the classical world / edited by Paul T. Keyser and John Scarborough.
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- Book
- Government document
- Series:
- Oxford handbooks online
- Oxford handbooks in classical studies.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science, Ancient.
- Medicine, Ancient.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Other Title:
- Handbook of science and medicine in the classical world
- Science and medicine in the classical world
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2018.
- System Details:
- data file
- Summary:
- With essays introducing, surveying, summarizing, and analyzing the many sciences of the classical world, readers are invited to study these fascinating disciplines, and in many cases offer new interpretations and syntheses. There is a brief section on Greek science of the 6th through 4th centuries BCE, then a long section on Greek science of the Hellenistic era, the period in which ancient Greek science was most active. The early Roman Empire is treated in a fourth section, and the final section addresses the sciences of Late Antiquity, or Early Byzantine, period, the 4th through 7th centuries CE. Throughout, the volume insists on the close integration of the ancient sciences with one another and on the consequent necessity to study them as a whole, not in isolation. Each essay includes a bibliography supporting its content and providing further reading. Key figures in the history of ancient science, each receive their own essay.
- Contents:
- Geography / Phillip G. Kaplan
- Aristotle / Jochen Althoff
- Astronomy / Alan C. Bowen
- Geography / Duane W. Roller
- Astrology / Glen Cooper
- Alchemy / Paul T. Keyser
- Medicine / JoAnn Scurlock
- Paradoxography / Klaus Geus, Colin Guthrie King
- Pharmacy / John Scarborough
- Dietetics / Mark Grant
- Surgery / Larry Bliquez
- Agronomy / Philip Thibodeau
- Physiognomy / Mariska Leunissen
- Ptolemy / James C. Evans
- Galen / Ian Johnston
- Mathematics and Astronomy / Alain Bernard
- Neoplatonist Commentators / Michael Griffin
- Geography / Andreas Kuelzer
- Alchemy / Cristina Viano
- Mathematics / Alexei Volkov
- Mathematics / Toke Knudsen
- Optics and Vision / Colin Webster
- Astral Sciences / Fengxian Xu
- Encyclopedic Literature / Mary Beagon
- Medical Encyclopedias and Education / Svetoslava Slaveva-Griffin
- Medical Sects / Lauren Caldwell
- Mathematics / Jens Høyrup
- Astral Sciences / Francesca Rochberg
- Mathematics / Annette Imhausen
- Astronomy / Joachim Quack
- Medicine / Rosalie David
- Medicine / Tsutomu Yamashita
- Hippocrates and Early Greek Medicine / Elizabeth Craik
- Epicurus / Teun Tieleman
- Mathematics / Fabio Acerbi
- Mechanics / Tracey Rihll
- Medical Sects / Fabio Stok
- Music Theory / Stefan Hagel
- Traditionalism and Originality / Philip Thibodeau
- Science for Happiness / Pam Gordon
- Stoicism / Teun Tieleman
- Alchemy / Kyle Fraser
- Aporetic Age / Paul T. Keyser
- Neo-Platonism / Lucas Siorvanes
- Latin Encyclopedic Literature / David Paniagua
- Plato and Pythagoras / Andrew Gregory
- Late Roman Medical Sciences / Louise Cilliers
- Introduction / Paul T. Keyser
- Mathematics and Astronomy / Leonid Zhmud.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on 3 July 2018).
- Other Format:
- Print version :
- ISBN:
- 9780199984657
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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