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Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture (Hardcover)
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Authority and Expertise in Ancient Scientific Culture (Hardcover)
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How did ancient scientific and knowledge-ordering writers make
their work authoritative? This book answers that question for a
wide range of ancient disciplines, from mathematics, medicine,
architecture and agriculture, through to law, historiography and
philosophy - focusing mainly, but not exclusively, on the
literature of the Roman Empire. It draws attention to habits that
these different fields had in common, while also showing how
individual texts and authors manipulated standard techniques of
self-authorisation in distinctive ways. It stresses the importance
of competitive and assertive styles of self-presentation, and also
examines some of the pressures that pulled in the opposite
direction by looking at authors who chose to acknowledge the
limitations of their own knowledge or resisted close identification
with narrow versions of expert identity. A final chapter by Sir
Geoffrey Lloyd offers a comparative account of scientific authority
and expertise in ancient Chinese, Indian and Mesopotamian culture.
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