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Science and Technology in Homeric Epics (Record no. 500332)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781402087844
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024 7# - OTHER STANDARD IDENTIFIER
Standard number or code 10.1007/978-1-4020-8784-4
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Classification number TA174
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Subject category code TEC016020
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Subject category code TEC016000
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082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 620.0042
Edition number 23
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Science and Technology in Homeric Epics
Medium [electronic resource] /
Statement of responsibility, etc. edited by S. A. Paipetis.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture Dordrecht :
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Springer Netherlands,
Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice 2008.
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Extent XX, 536 p.
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Media type term computer
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490 1# - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement History of Mechanism and Machine Science,
International Standard Serial Number 1875-3442 ;
Volume/sequential designation 6
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note General Themes -- Mycenaean Technology -- Autagreton -- Mathematics and Physics -- Archimedes' Count of Homer's Cattle of the Sun -- Vortices in Homer's Odyssey — A Scientific Approach -- The Homeric Automata and Their Implementation -- The River Ocean: Homer's Cosmogony -- The Laws of Curvilinear Motion in the Iliad -- Materials -- Iron in the Homeric Epics & Homer, a Sensible Ecologist -- Early Bronze Technology at Land's End, North Western Iberia -- Porphyra: In Search of Dyeing Methods in Ancient Greece -- Technology Transfer in the Bronze Age: The Case of a Faience-Like Blue Glaze Produced at Bread-Oven Temperatures -- DefensiveWeapons -- From Homer to Hoplite: Scientific Investigations of Greek Copper Alloy Helmets -- Defensive Weapons in Homer -- How the Greeks Got Ahead: Technological Aspects of Manufacture of a Corinthian Type Hoplite Bronze Helmet from Olympia -- Telecommunications -- Theoretical Analysis of Telecommunication through “Friktories” -- Geology — Geomechanics -- Elements of Engineering Geology and Geotechnical Engineering in the Homeric Poems -- Geological Knowledge of Greeks in the Era of Trojan War -- Static and Dynamic Analysis of the Atreus Vaulted Tomb in Mycenae -- Medicine -- Homeric Injury Scenes on Ancient Greek Pottery Reveal Medical Knowledge -- The Healing Art in the Iliad -- Medicinal Herbs and Plants in Homer -- Flora and Fauna -- Agricultural Development in the Homeric Era -- The Fauna of Greece and Adjacent Areas in the Age of Homer -- Astronomy -- “Eneoros Minos” and the Minoan Calendrical Abacus -- The Divine Fires of Creation: Homeric Hephaestos as a Comet/Meteor God -- A Comet during the Trojan War? -- Homeric Calendar and Helios Charioteer -- Homer and Orosius: A Key to Explain Deucalion's Flood, Exodus and Other Tales -- Seafaring -- Homer at Sea (????????? ???????) -- The Redness of Ulysses' Ships -- Cultural Environment -- Ambrosia, Nectar and Elaion in the Homeric Poems -- Dietary Habits in Homer -- Geography -- Trojan Plain and Homeric Topography -- General Interest -- Mêtis and the Artificial -- Interpreting the Representations on the Shield of Achilles -- Homer and the So-Called Homeric Questions -- Atlantis in Homer and Other Authors Prior to Plato -- Did Ulysses Travel to Atlantis? -- Homer's Reference to Writing in Proitos' Era -- Linguistic Science and Script Technology: The Homeric Evidence -- The Miraculous Homeric Metre.
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Summary, etc. In the Homeric Epics, important references to specific autonomous systems and mechanisms of very advanced technology, such as automata and artificial intelligence, as well as to almost modern methods of design and production are included. Even if those features of Homeric science were just poetic concepts (which on many occasions does not explain the astonishing details of design and manufacture, like the ones included in the present volume), they seem to prove that these achievements were well within human capability. In addition, the substantial development of machine theory during the early post-Homeric age shows that the Homeric descriptions were a kind of prophetic conception of these machines, and scientific research must be a quest for the fundamental principles of knowledge available during the Late Bronze Age and the dawn of the Iron Age. Such investigations must of necessity be strongly interdisciplinary and also proceed continuously in time, since, as science progresses, new elements of knowledge are discovered in the Homeric Epics, amenable to scientific analysis. This book brings together papers presented at the international symposium Science and Technology in Homeric Epics, which took place at Ancient Olympia in 2006. It includes a total of 41 contributions, mostly original research papers, covering diverse fields of science and technology, in the modern sense of these words.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Engineering.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Engineering design.
650 14 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Engineering.
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Topical term or geographic name entry element Engineering Design.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History of Science.
650 24 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element History, general.
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Personal name Paipetis, S. A.
Relator term editor.
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Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element SpringerLink (Online service)
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Title Springer eBooks
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Relationship information Printed edition:
International Standard Book Number 9781402087837
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title History of Mechanism and Machine Science,
International Standard Serial Number 1875-3442 ;
Volume/sequential designation 6
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Uniform Resource Identifier http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8784-4
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