The artes and the emergence of a scientific culture in the early Roman empire
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The artes and the emergence of a scientific culture in the early Roman empire
Cambridge University Press, 2025
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 382-423) and indexes
Contents of Works
- Introduction : the Idea of the artes
- The scientific premises for the imperial artes : a view from the late republic
- Society, politics, and specialized knowledge in the Early Roman Empire : the artes and their authors
- The architectonic ars of architecture : explanation and method in Vitruvius' De architectura
- Columella and the new Roman agronomy : the art of agriculture and knowledge of nature in Res rustica
- Making a Roman ars of medicine : observation, explanation, and judgement in Celsus' De medicina
- The character and growth of the Latin art of war : from ars to exempla
- The emergence of an ars mensoria : Frontinus and Hyginus on the historical realities and theoretical Ideals of Roman land-surveying
