Frontiers of Ancient Science
Subtitle: Essays in Honor of Heinrich Von Staden
Publisher: de Gruyter GmbH, Walter
Published: 2015
Language: eng; fre; ger; ita
Number of pages: 754
ISBN-13: 9783110333923
Subjects: Essays
Description: Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden 508 00 a In English, with two contributions in French, three in German and two in Italian