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Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Taschenbuch von Liba Taub
Sprache: Englisch

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This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.
This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.
Über den 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).
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521130639
ISBN-10: 0521130638
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Taub, Liba
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Liba Taub
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.2019
Gewicht: 0,312 kg
Artikel-ID: 108779820
Über den 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).
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.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte
Jahrhundert: Vor- & Frühgeschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9780521130639
ISBN-10: 0521130638
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Taub, Liba
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 12 mm
Von/Mit: Liba Taub
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.2019
Gewicht: 0,312 kg
Artikel-ID: 108779820
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