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03714cam a2200469Mi 4500 |
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20221229124638.0 |
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eng |
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9783110295122 |
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(electronic bk.) |
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3110295121 |
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(electronic bk.) |
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3110295059 |
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9783110295054 |
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9783110295054 |
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EBLCP |
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eng |
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e-gr--- |
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| Holding library |
MAIN |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
Q124.95 .W68 2013 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Asper, Markus. |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Writing Science : |
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Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
Berlin : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
De Gruyter, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2013. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource (512 pages) |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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text |
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txt |
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rdacontent. |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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computer |
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c |
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rdamedia. |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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| Carrier type term |
online resource |
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cr |
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rdacarrier. |
| 490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT |
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| Series statement |
Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures. |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
Introduction; A. Comparisons; The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context; Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China; Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder's Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia; B. Greek Medical Writing; Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen; Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures; Galen on Poetic Testimony- |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries-C. Greek Mathematical Writing; Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences; Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens; Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics; Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC; D. Science Writing as/and Literature; On the Variety of 'Genres' of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse; Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics. |
| 505 8# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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Making up Progress -- in Ancient Greek Science WritingIn Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond; Notes on Contributors; General Index; Index Locorum. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
Scientific and technological texts have not played a significant role in modern literary criticism. This collection, focusing mostly on medical and mathematical texts from ancient Greece, aims at approaching ancient Greek science from the cross-disciplinary perspective of authorship. Among the questions addressed are: How does scientific writing differ from 'literary' writing? In what ways does the author present himself as an authoritative figure? In addition to offering a new approach to this vast area of ancient literature, this collection reflects on the forms of scientific and scholarly c. |
| 541 ## - IMMEDIATE SOURCE OF ACQUISITION NOTE |
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| Source of acquisition |
Oxbow |
| Method of acquisition |
Purchase |
| Date of acquisition |
2014-05-01 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Science |
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Greece |
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History. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Mathematics, Greek. |
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Medicine, Greek and Roman. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
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Composition & Creative Writing. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES |
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Rhetoric. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
REFERENCE |
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Writing Skills. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Mathematics, Greek. |
| 650 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Medicine, Greek and Roman. |
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Science. |
| 651 #7 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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Greece. |
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Dewey Decimal Classification |
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Books |