Knowledge, text and practice in ancient technical writing

Knowledge, text and practice in ancient technical writing

From words to acts? / Philip van der Eijk and Marco Formisano -- The poetics of knowledge / Marco Formisano -- Machines on paper: from words to acts in ancient mechanics / Markus Asper -- Architecture as "the art of the possible" / Elisa Romano -- Caesar's Rhine bridge and its feasibi...

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Körperschaften: ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Gastgebende Institution), From words to acts? The principal of practical applicability in ancient texts (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Formisano, Marco (HerausgeberIn), Eijk, Philip J. van der (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2017
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Technical writing > History and criticism > Classical literature > Technology > History > Greece > Rome (Empire) > Criticism, interpretation, etc > Aufsatzsammlung > Konferenzschrift > Altertum > Schrifttum > Technik
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Zusammenfassung:From words to acts? / Philip van der Eijk and Marco Formisano -- The poetics of knowledge / Marco Formisano -- Machines on paper: from words to acts in ancient mechanics / Markus Asper -- Architecture as "the art of the possible" / Elisa Romano -- Caesar's Rhine bridge and its feasibility in Giovanni Giocondo's Expositio pontis / Ronny Kaiser -- From words to acts: on the applicability of Hippocratic therapy / Pilar Pérez Cañizares -- Naso magister erat -- sed cui bono? : on not taking the poet's teaching seriously / Alison Sharrock -- From techne to kakotechnia: use and abuse of ancient cosmetic texts / Laurence Totelin -- From discourses to handbook: the Encheiridion of Epictetus as a practical guide to life / Gerard Boter -- The problem of practical applicability in Ptolemy's Geography / Klaus Geus -- Living according to the seasons : the power of parapegmata / Gerd Grasshoff -- Auctoritas in the garden : Columella's poetic strategy in De re rustica 10 / Christiane Reitz -- The generous text: animal intuition, human knowledge, and written transmission in Pliny's books on medicine / Brooke Holmes -- From descriptions to acts : the paradoxical animals of the ancients from a cognitive perspective / Pietro Li Causi
Beschreibung:Includes index
"This volume has arisen from an international conference held at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry in Berlin in May 2011." (Acknowledgements)
Beschreibung:xiii, 282 Seiten
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ISBN:9781107169432
978-1-107-16943-2