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Author Berrey, Marquis, author.

Title Hellenistic Science at Court / Marquis Berrey.

Publication Info. Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (282 pages).
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Series Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures ; 5
Science, technology, and medicine in ancient cultures ; 5.
Contents Frontmatter -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Simmias the Elephant-Hunter and Other People at the Court of Ptolemy -- 2. Kingship, Symposia, Gift-Exchange: Parameters of Friendship -- 3. An Entertaining Genre -- 4. Technology and Performance in Eratosthenes and Andreas -- 5. Herophilus' Pulse and Archimedes' Mechanized Mathematics -- Epilogue -- Editions of Primary Sources -- Bibliography -- Index Locorum -- Index Rerum.
Summary The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-258) and index.
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Language In English.
Subject Science -- Egypt -- History.
Science.
Egypt.
History.
Egypt -- Civilization -- 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
Chronological Term 332 B.C.-638 A.D.
Indexed Term (Produktform)Electronic book text
(Zielgruppe)Fachpublikum/ Wissenschaft
(BISAC Subject Heading)HIS002000
(BISAC Subject Heading)LIT004190: LIT004190 LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical
Hellenistische Wissenschaft
Interdisciplinarity; court society; emergence; Hellenistic science
Emergenz
Interdisziplinarität
Höfische Kultur
(VLB-WN)9553
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: 9783110541946
Print version: 9783110540154
Print version: 9783110539776
ISBN 9783110541946 (electronic book)
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