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Body and machine in classical antiquity / edited by Maria Gerolemou, George Kazantzidis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body and technology.
- Technology--Greece--History--To 1500.
- Technology.
- Medicine, Greek and Roman.
- Human body and technology in literature.
- Medical literature--Greece--History and criticism.
- Medical literature.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 331 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- "Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automata down to the figural assimilation between body parts and products of human craft in Greek and Roman medicine"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- More than a thing : figuring hybridity in archaic poetry and art / Deborah Steiner
- Automata, cyborgs, and hybrids : bodies and machines in antiquity antiquity / Jane Draycott
- Not yet the android : the limits of wonder in ancient automata / Isabel A. Ruffell
- Technical physicians and medical machines in the Hippocratic corpus / Maria Gerolemou
- The empirical, art and science in Hippocrates' On joints / Jean De Groot
- Hippocrates' Diseases 4 and the technological body / Colin Webster
- Aristotle on the Lung and the Bellows-Lung analogy / Giuli Korobili
- The ill effect of south winds on the joints in the human body : Theophrastus, De ventis 56 and pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 1.24 / Robert Mayhew
- The beauty that lies within : anatomy, mechanics and thauma in Hellenistic medicine / George Kazantzidis
- The mechanics of the heart in antiquity / Matteo Valleriani
- The mechanics of Galen's Theory of nutrition / Orly Lewis
- Iatromechanism and antiquarianism in Morgagni's Studies on Celsus, 1720-1761 / Marquis Berrey.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781316514665
- 1316514668
- 9781009088060
- 1009088068
- OCLC:
- 1356570553
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