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Taub, Liba

 
9780521130639: Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

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

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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).

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9780521113700: Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

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ISBN 10:  0521113709 ISBN 13:  9780521113700
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2017
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