Writing Science : Medical and Mathematical Authorship in Ancient Greece.

Introduction -- A. Comparisons -- The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context -- Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China -- Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder's Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia -- B. Greek Medical Writing -- Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen -- Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures -- Galen on Poetic Testimony- -- The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries- -- C. Greek Mathematical Writing -- Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences -- Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens -- Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics -- Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC -- D. Science Writing as/and Literature -- On the Variety of 'Genres' of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse -- Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics -- Making up Progress - in Ancient Greek Science Writing -- In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond -- Notes on Contributors -- General Index -- Index Locorum.