Presented with facing Latin text, this is the first English translation and an up-to-date commentary of the Medicina Plinii, a late antique book on self-medication for travellers, adapted from Pliny's Natural History, which became one of the most influential books of applied medicine and self-medication in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. It is of dual interest to present-day scholarship: it is a monument for the practical application of classical knowledge which has recently found lively interest in the history of science and medicine. It also provides a fascinating...
Presented with facing Latin text, this is the first English translation and an up-to-date commentary of the Medicina Plinii, a late antique ...
The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation created by astronomers of the early Chinese empire between the late second century BCE and the third century CE. The paradigm they established was to shape East Asian thought and practice in the field of mathematical astronomy for centuries to come. It was in many ways radically different from better known traditions of astronomy in other parts of the ancient world.
This book includes full English translations of the first three systems of...
The Foundations of Celestial Reckoning gives the reader direct access to the foundational documents of the tradition of calculation create...
This book provides the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samos’ On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, with full introduction, detailed commentary, and relevant scholia. Suitable for students and scholars working on ancient science and astronomy.
This book provides the Greek text and an English translation of Aristarchus of Samos’ On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, with full i...
This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios, a canonical mathematical text used from as early as the 2nd century CE until the early modern period. Suitable for historians of science, astronomy, and mathematics, and scholars of the ancient and medieval periods.
This book provides the first English translation of the Greek text of the Spherics of Theodosios, a canonical mathematical text used from as early as ...