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Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity de George Kazantzidis

Body and Machine in Classical Antiquity

Editat de George Kazantzidis, Maria Gerolemou
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 10 apr 2025
Explores the ways in which the human body and the world of machines and technological artefacts intersected in the ancient world. Traces the origins of the body-machine interface from Homer's automata down to the figural assimilation between body parts and products of human craft in Greek and Roman medicine.
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ISBN-13: 9781009088060
ISBN-10: 1009088068
Pagini: 345
Editura: Cambridge University Press

Cuprins

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.