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Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
Jason König (Ed.)
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Description for Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
hardcover. How did ancient scientific writers make their work authoritative? This volume answers that question for a wide range of disciplines. Editor(s): Konig, Jason; Woolf, Greg. Num Pages: 486 pages, 1 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBLA1; HBTB; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 247 x 174 x 32. Weight in Grams: 1012.
How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual texts and authors manipulated standard techniques of self-authorisation in distinctive ways. It stresses the importance of competitive and assertive styles of self-presentation, and also examines some of the pressures that pulled in the opposite direction ... Read more
How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine, architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that these different fields had in common, while also showing how individual texts and authors manipulated standard techniques of self-authorisation in distinctive ways. It stresses the importance of competitive and assertive styles of self-presentation, and also examines some of the pressures that pulled in the opposite direction ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Cambridge University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
Number of Pages
474
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107060067
SKU
V9781107060067
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About Jason König (Ed.)
Jason König is Professor of Greek at the University of St Andrews. This is the third in a trilogy of volumes arising from a Leverhulme-funded research project, 'Science and Empire in the Roman World', which ran from 2007 to 2010 in St Andrews; the other two volumes, Ancient Libraries and Encyclopaedism from Antiquity to the Renaissance, were both published by ... Read more
Reviews for Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture
'… anyone interested in the study of scientific/technical literature will certainly find something useful in one or another of the seventeen individual papers. … the copyediting is excellent and the volume is easy to use: it has copious notes and bibliography (860 titles); the original texts are often given in addition to the English translation; and there is a helpful ... Read more