Writing Science

1 - Introduction [Seite 9]
2 - A. Comparisons [Seite 23]
2.1 - The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context [Seite 25]
2.2 - Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China [Seite 71]
2.3 - Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder's Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia [Seite 91]
3 - B. Greek Medical Writing [Seite 117]
3.1 - Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen [Seite 119]
3.2 - Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures [Seite 153]
3.3 - Galen on Poetic Testimony- [Seite 185]
3.4 - The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries- [Seite 199]
4 - C. Greek Mathematical Writing [Seite 223]
4.1 - Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences [Seite 225]
4.2 - Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens [Seite 263]
4.3 - Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics [Seite 287]
4.4 - Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC [Seite 307]
5 - D. Science Writing as/and Literature [Seite 339]
5.1 - On the Variety of 'Genres' of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse [Seite 341]
5.2 - Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics [Seite 375]
5.3 - Making up Progress - in Ancient Greek Science Writing [Seite 419]
5.4 - In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond [Seite 439]
6 - Notes on Contributors [Seite 481]
7 - General Index [Seite 485]
8 - Index Locorum [Seite 493]