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Imagination is more important than knowledge. For while knowledge defines all we currently know and understand, imagination points to all we might yet discover and create.
ISBN10: 1316516237, ISBN13: 9781316516232, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in good condition with minor wear to the pages, binding, and minor marks within 1.23 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2023]
ISBN10: 1316516237, ISBN13: 9781316516232, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in acceptable condition with wear to the pages, binding, and some marks within 1.23 [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2023]
ISBN10: 1316516237, ISBN13: 9781316516232, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] Hardcover Hardcover. Hero of Alexandria was a figure of great importance not only for ancient technology but also for the medieval and early modern traditions that drew on his work. In this book Courtney Roby presents Hero's key strategies for developing, solving, and contextualizing technical problems, not only in his own lifetime but as an influential tradition of creating accessible technical treatises spanning multiple disciplines. While Hero's historical biography is all but impossible to reconstruct, she examines Hero as a corpus, a textual tradition of technical problem-solving capable of incorporating textual transformations like interpolation, epitomization, and translation, as well as intermedial transformation from text to artifact. Key themes include ancient and early modern technical readerships, the relationship between mathematics and mechanics, the materiality of manuscript and printed texts, and the shifting cultural contexts for scientific and technical literature. The first sustained study of Hero, who is a key figure in the history of technology in antiquity and the early modern period. It also contributes much to the history of the book and to an understanding of the broader role of material texts in supporting technical and scientific investigation. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availabilit ...
ISBN10: 1316516237, ISBN13: 9781316516232, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Book is in NEW condition. 1.23 [Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2023]
ISBN10: 1316516237, ISBN13: 9781316516232, [publisher: Cambridge University Press] Hardcover Item in good condition. Textbooks may not include supplemental items i.e. CDs, access codes etc. [Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2023]
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