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Time and ancient medicine : how sundials and water clocks changed medical science / Kassandra J. Miller.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Miller, Kassandra J., author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Ancient.
- Sundials--History.
- Sundials.
- Water clocks--History.
- Water clocks.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (225 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- 'Time and Ancient Medicine' is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical timekeeping practices affected engagement with time elsewhere in society.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on September 1, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Miller, Kassandra J. Time and Ancient Medicine
- ISBN:
- 0-19-199385-9
- 0-19-888519-9
- 0-19-888518-0
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