Body and machine in classical antiquity
| Weitere Verfasser: |
Gerolemou, Maria
, [HerausgeberIn]
Kazantzidis, Georgios 1979- , [HerausgeberIn] |
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| Ort/Verlag/Jahr: |
Cambridge ; New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
2023.
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| Umfang/Format: |
xiii, 331 pages : illustrations (coloured) ; 24 cm. |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- More than a thing : figuring hybridity in archaic poetry and art / Deborah Steiner
- Automata, cyborgs, and hybrids : bodies and machines in antiquity antiquity / Jane Draycott
- Not yet the android : the limits of wonder in ancient automata / Isabel A. Ruffell
- Technical physicians and medical machines in the Hippocratic corpus / Maria Gerolemou
- The empirical, art and science in Hippocrates' On joints / Jean De Groot
- Hippocrates' Diseases 4 and the technological body / Colin Webster
- Aristotle on the Lung and the Bellows-Lung analogy / Giuli Korobili
- The ill effect of south winds on the joints in the human body : Theophrastus, De ventis 56 and pseudo-Aristotle, Problemata 1.24 / Robert Mayhew
- The beauty that lies within : anatomy, mechanics and thauma in Hellenistic medicine / George Kazantzidis
- The mechanics of the heart in antiquity / Matteo Valleriani
- The mechanics of Galen's Theory of nutrition / Orly Lewis
- Iatromechanism and antiquarianism in Morgagni's Studies on Celsus, 1720-1761 / Marquis Berrey
