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9781316620625: Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing
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ISBN 10: 131662062X ISBN 13: 9781316620625
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2021

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This book explores the relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman scientific and technical texts.

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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: Transformations of War from Antiquity to Clausewitz, coedited with H. Böhme, 2012) as well as Vitruvius (Vitruvius in the Round, co-edited with S. Cuomo, special issue of Arethusa, 2016). He is the editor of The Library of the Other Antiquity, a series devoted to late antique literature.

Philip van der Eijk is Alexander von Humboldt Professor of Classics and History of Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He has published on ancient medicine, philosophy and science, comparative literature and patristics. He is the author of Aristoteles: De insomniis, De divinatione per somnum (1994), Diocles of Carystus (2000–1), Philoponus on Aristotle on the Soul 1 (2005–6), Medicine and Philosophy in Classical Antiquity (2005); and Nemesius: On the Nature of Man (with R. W. Sharples, 2008). He has edited Ancient Histories of Medicine (1999) and Hippocrates in Context (2005), and co-edited Ancient Medicine in its Socio-Cultural Context (with H. F. J. Horstmanshoff and P. H. Schrijvers, 1995).

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Editore
Cambridge University Press
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
131662062X
ISBN 13 
9781316620625
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Numero di pagine
298
Redattore
Formisano Marco
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
gpsr@libri.de
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9781107169432: Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing

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ISBN 10:  1107169437 ISBN 13:  9781107169432
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2017
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