Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Informationen zum Autor Liba Taub is Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum and the Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She was awarded an Einstein Foundation Visiting Fellowship to support her work with the Topoi Excellence Cluster (Berlin), and has been the recipient of the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize of the History of Science and a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching. She is the author of Ptolemy's Universe: The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy's Astronomy (1993), Ancient Meteorology (2003) and Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome (2008). Klappentext This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies. Zusammenfassung This book explores the surprising variety of texts used to communicate scientific and mathematical ideas in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. Each chapter concentrates on a particular genre - poetry! letter! encyclopaedia! commentary and biography - and considers the broader cultural contexts in which these texts were produced and read. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Poetry; 2. Letter; 3. Encyclopaedia; 4. Commentary; 5. Biography; Conclusion; Bibliographical essay; Appendix 1: arithmetical epigrams from Book 14 of The Greek Anthology; Appendix 2: Eratosthenes' Letter to King Ptolemy.

Product details

• Authors: Liba Taub, Liba (University of Cambridge) Taub, Liba Chaia Taub, Taub Liba
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.04.2017
• EAN: 9780521113700
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11370-0
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Key Themes in Ancient History; Key Themes in Ancient History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Technology > General, dictionaries; SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Ancient / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / History, History of Science, History of engineering and technology, Ancient History, History of engineering & technology, Ancient history: to c 500 CE