Year: 2003 Language: english Author: Liba Taub Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0–415–16195–9 Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 286 Description: Liba Taub discusses the variety of ancient texts which communicate meteorological and scientific ideas, from Homeric epic and the didactic poetry of Hesiod, Aratus and Lucretius, to works such as Aristotle’s Meteorology, the Hippocratic medical treatise on Airs, Waters, Places and Seneca’s Natural Questions. The range and diversity of this literature highlights questions of intellectual authority in antiquity and illustrates the lively engagement of ancient authors with the work of their predecessors. Ancient Meteorology will be a valuable and stimulating resource for classicists and readers interested in the history of science.
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Ancient Meteorlogy
Language: english
Author: Liba Taub
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 0–415–16195–9
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 286
Description: Liba Taub discusses the variety of ancient texts which communicate meteorological and scientific ideas, from Homeric epic and the didactic poetry of Hesiod, Aratus and Lucretius, to works such as Aristotle’s Meteorology, the Hippocratic medical treatise on Airs, Waters, Places and Seneca’s Natural Questions. The range and diversity
of this literature highlights questions of intellectual authority in antiquity and illustrates the lively engagement of ancient authors with the work of their predecessors.
Ancient Meteorology will be a valuable and stimulating resource for classicists and readers interested in the history of science.
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