Coming to Terms: Approaches to (Ancient) Terminologies

Open Access Veröffentlicht von De Gruyter 2024

Coming to Terms

Approaches to (Ancient) Terminologies

Herausgegeben von: Markus Asper

Band 14 der Reihe Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Cultures

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111314532

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Terminologies present various challenges to their inventors and to their users, ranging from epistemic adequacy over linguistic concerns to matters of strategy and group construction. With respect to historical terminologies, however, research has been dominated by linguistic approaches. Breaking new ground, Coming to Terms collects eleven articles that combine an interest in the history of knowledge, mostly ancient Greek, with research on scientific terminologies. They all share an interest in terminological practices, that is, questions such as how and when to coin a term and then what to do with it. Among the fields discussed are astronomy, the Roman surveyors, Aristotelian science, Renaissance and modern biology, contemporary medicine, ancient Chinese philosophy, 20^th-century physics, and colonial linguistics. Confronting ancient with modern terminologies, the collection intends to test integrative interpretive approaches. Thus, the collection documents how rich ancient (and modern) terminologies are and shows that they are, beyond lexicography, worth being studied per se.

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Markus Asper, Humboldt-University of Berlin, Germany.

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Frontmatter Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	I
Preface Markus Asper Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	V
Contents Öffentlich zugänglich PDF downloaden	VII
Introduction Coming to Terms: Approaching (Ancient) Terminologies Markus Asper Open Access PDF downloaden	1
The Language of Astronomy Francesca Schironi Open Access PDF downloaden	11
Terminology in the Wild: Enactive Meaning-Making in the Roman Surveyors Courtney Roby Open Access PDF downloaden	41
Rich Names: Implications of Terminology in Ancient Greek Rhetoric, Medicine, and Siege Lore Markus Asper Open Access PDF downloaden	67
The Problem of Biological Terminology in Aristotle’s De generatione animalium (On Generation of Animals) Sabine Föllinger Open Access PDF downloaden	85
Coming to Terms with Aristotle: Technical Terminology in the Poetics and Beyond Loren D. Marsh Open Access PDF downloaden	101
Form, Terminology, and Clarity in Aristotle Open Access PDF downloaden	131
Scientific Nomenclature of Species and Naming Practices in (Ancient) Biology Marcel Humar Open Access PDF downloaden	183
The Rise of Botanical Terminology in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries Dominik Berrens Open Access PDF downloaden	205
Terminology and Professionalism in Technologized Medicine Werner Golder Open Access PDF downloaden	227
Everyday Language and Technical Terminology: Reflective Abstractions in the Long-Term History of Spatial Terms Matthias Schemmel Open Access PDF downloaden	243
Epikhartika: About Language on Maps with Special Reference to Colonial Matters Thomas Stolz und Ingo H. Warnke Open Access PDF downloaden	259
Notes on Contributors Open Access PDF downloaden	297
Index Open Access PDF downloaden	299

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Sprache: Englisch
Verlag: De Gruyter
Copyrightjahr: 2024
Zielgruppe: Classicists, historians of science, philosophers, linguists
Seiten
- Frontmatter: 8
- Inhalt: 304
Abbildungen
- Abbildungen: 11
- Farbige Abbildungen: 4
- Farbige Strichzeichnungen: 3
- Farbige Karten: 8
- Tabellen: 5
Schlagworte: Terminologie; antike Wissenschaft; Aristoteles

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Veröffentlicht: 31. Dezember 2023
ISBN: 9783111314532

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Veröffentlicht: 31. Dezember 2023
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