ISBN10: 0801863716, ISBN13: 9780801863714, [publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - In describing the origins of modern 'science', historians often fail to appreciate or misread how the ancients understood and used significant expressions of 'natural knowledge'. Few read the story of the cyclops, for example, as useful advice about where to travel and settle -- and where not to. Others search for 'lost Egyptian wisdom' rather than see how the great pyramids of the Old Kingdom could be built with the simple tools and cumbersome mathematics of the time.Mott T. Greene reexamines the remnants of ancient life using conceptual tools seldom brought to bear on such material. The result is a fresh appraisal of what the evidence will yield about natural phenomena and modes of thought in the distant past. Greene builds on the work of modern scholars but contributes scientific precision and tenacity to debates in areas as diverse as archaeology, early art history, Egyptian fractions, Indo-Iranian religion, classical Greek verse, and Plato's 'problem of knowledge'.
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ISBN10: 0801863716, ISBN13: 9780801863714, [publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press.] Softcover XIX., 182 Seiten / p. Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langjährigem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand / very good condition - Prehistory is a curious designation. It appeared first in early nineteenth-century Europe as a way of describing researches into periods, however proximate in absolute time, for which there were no written records. Thus the term prehistory might be applied to the reconstruction of the lives of inhabitants of Wales or Scotland in the Roman period of British history, to the extent that these fell outside the pale of literacy. -- Somewhat later in the century, in the terms of a scheme proposed by the Danish historian Jens Jacob Worsaae 1821-85), prehistory acquired periods of its own based on a comparative scheme of material culture: Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age, in which archaeological residues of weaponry and decorative arts came to the fore as identifying characters. Worsaae’s scheme, which overlapped the chronology based on the acquisition of writing, was rapidly folded into the emerging narrative of human evolutionary development. Once the antiquity of man was established well beyond the horizon of Bible-based ...
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