Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Key Themes in Ancient History) - Softcover

Liba Taub

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521130638 ISBN 13: 9780521130639

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2017

Synopsis

This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.

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About the Author

Liba Taub is Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum and the Head of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She was awarded an Einstein Foundation Visiting Fellowship to support her work with the Topoi Excellence Cluster (Berlin), and has been the recipient of the Joseph H. Hazen Education Prize of the History of Science and a University of Cambridge Pilkington Prize for excellence in teaching. She is the author of Ptolemy's Universe: The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy's Astronomy (1993), Ancient Meteorology (2003) and Aetna and the Moon: Explaining Nature in Ancient Greece and Rome (2008).

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521130638
• ISBN 13: 9780521130639
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 164