Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity

ISBN-13: 9781316514665 / Twarda / 2023 / 348 str.

Opis

The first systematic exploration of the multifaceted relationship between human bodies and machines in classical antiquity.

Spis treści

Part I. Blended Bodies: 1. More than a thing: figuring hybridity in archaic poetry and art Deborah Steiner; 2. Automata, cyborgs, and hybrids: bodies and machines in Antiquity Jane Draycott; 3. Not yet the android: the limits of wonder in ancient automata Isabel A. Ruffell; Part II. The Technological Body: 4. Technical physicians and medical machines in the Hippocratic Corpus Maria Gerolemou; 5. The empirical, art, and science in Hippocrates' On Joints Jean De Groot; 6. Hippocrates' Diseases 4 and the technological body Colin Webster; Part III. Towards the Mechanization of the Human Body: 7. Aristotle on the lung and the bellows-lungs analogy Giuli Korobili; 8. 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; 9. The Beauty that lies within; Anatomy, mechanics and thauma in Hellenistic Medicine George Kazantzidis; 10. The mechanics of the heart in Antiquity Matteo Valleriani; 11. The mechanics of Galen's Theory of Nutrition Orly Lewis; 12. Iatromechanism and Antiquarianism in Morgagni's Studies on Celsus, 1720–1761 Marquis Berrey.