The Frontiers of Ancient Science: Essays in Honor of Heinrich von Staden

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Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community. Preface Table of Contents Abbreviations Egypt and the Medicinal Use of Papyrus According to Soranus and Other Physicians Medical Acculturation?: Early Greek Texts and the Question of Near Eastern Influence “Hippocratic” Oaths?: A Cross-Cultural Exploration of Medical Ethics in the Ancient World Simplicius in Thirteenth-Century Paris: A Question Aristotle and the Study of Animals and Plants A Case of Cultural (Mis)translation?: Egyptian Eyes on Two Greek Amulets for Ophthalmia Gesund durchs Jahr mit Dr. Hippokrates – Monat für Monat! Teleology and Embryogenesis in Aristotle’s Generation of Animals 2.6 Un ex-voto ophtalmologique inscrit à Rougiers (Var) : pour une étude des maladies des yeux dans le monde gallo-romain Medicine and Misfortune: Symptoma in Greek Medical Writing Mathematics in Plato’s Republic Hellenistic Philosophers on the Phenomenon of Changing Colors Erotian, Reader of Hippocrates’ Prognostic: A New Discovery Aristotle’s Badger Heron of Alexandria and the Principles of Mechanics Plato on Divine Art and the Production of Body “For sleep, in some way, is an epileptic seizure” (somn. vig. 3, 457a9 – 10) Il Numen Augusti nel senatus consultum de Cn. Pisone patre How Archytas Doubled the Cube A Revised Astronomical Dating of Thessalus’ De virtutibus herbarum What’s in a Nomen?: Vlatadon 14 and an Old Theory Resurrected An Archaeological Meditation on Trepanation Des listes pour apprendre, résoudre, classer, archiver, explorer ou inventer Conceiving the History of Science Forward Galeno sull’autenticità del Prorretico I Hippokrateskommentare im 16. Jahrhundert: Peter Memms Eidkommentar als Paradigma eines gegenwartsbezogenen Genres Technē and Method in Ancient Artillery Construction: The Belopoeica of Philo of Byzantium Herrschaftskritik bei Galen Galen on the Assessment of Bodily Mixtures Contributors Heinrich von Staden: Bibliography 1975–2012 Index locorum qui e scriptoribus antiquis et medii quod dicunt aevi Graecis atque Latinis citantur General Index