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Marco Formisano - Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing - 9781107169432 - V9781107169432
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Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing

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Description for Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing hardcover. This book explores the relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman scientific and technical texts. Editor(s): Formisano, Marco; Eijk, Philip van der. Num Pages: 300 pages, 12 b/w illus. BIC Classification: 2ADL; 2AHA; DSBB; HBLA1; PDX. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 228 x 152. .
The relationship between theory and practice, between norms indicated in a text and their extra-textual application, is one of the most fascinating issues in the history and theory of science. Yet this aspect has often been taken for granted and never explored in depth. The essays contained in this volume provide a multi-layered and nuanced discussion of this relationship as it emerges in ancient Greek and Roman culture in a number of fields, such as agriculture, architecture, the art of love, astronomy, ethics, mechanics, medicine and pharmacology. The main focus is on the textuality of processes of transmission of knowledge ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Weight
28g
Number of Pages
294
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107169432
SKU
V9781107169432
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-16

About Marco Formisano
Marco Formisano is Professor of Latin Literature at Universiteit Gent, Belgium. He has published extensively on ancient technical and scientific writing. His first monograph, Tecnica e scrittura (2001), was dedicated to late Latin scientific texts. He has studied the ancient art of war as a literary genre and its tradition (Vegezio: Arte della guerra romana, 2003 and War in Words: ... Read more

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