Liba Taub

Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 429g
• ISBN-13: 9780521113700
• ISBN-10: 0521113709
• Artikelnr.: 48321412

Autorenporträt

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).

Inhaltsangabe

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.