Writing Science (eBook)

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Markus Asper, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.

Introduction 9
A. Comparisons 23
The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context 25
Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China 71
Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia 91
B. Greek Medical Writing 117
Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen 119
Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures 153
Galen on Poetic Testimony- 185
The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries- 199
C. Greek Mathematical Writing 223
Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences 225
Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens 263
Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics 287
Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC 307
D. Science Writing as/and Literature 339
On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse 341
Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics 375
Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing 419
In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond 439
Notes on Contributors 481
General Index 485
Index Locorum 493

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"The rich collection of topics, the diversity of backgrounds and approaches to scientific writing and its narratology, the inclusion of several different disciplines of ancient science, and the impressive learning which pervades the collection make this volume a welcome addition to the bibliography of ancient science and its Nachleben."
Konstantinos Kapparis in: BMCR 2014.12.08