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Philo of Byzantium. Pneumatica: The First Treatise on Experimental Phyics: Western Vesion and Eastern Version. Facsimile and Transcript of the Latin Manuscript, Codex Latinus Monac

Philo of Byzantium. Pneumatica: The First Treatise on Experimental Phyics: Western Vesion and Eastern Version. Facsimile and Transcript of the Latin Manuscript, Codex Latinus Monac

          
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English summary: Philo, from the Greek colony of Byzantium, was active in Alexandria and Rhodos about 200 B.C. He is famous as one of the earliest teachers of military engineering, and is known to have written technical and scientific works, including one on fluid mechanics.Beginning in 1870, Latin and Arabic versions of his Pneumatica were rediscovered, after a period of oblivion that had lasted a few centuries. The work is a thoroughly illustrated treatise on physical demonstrations, but when it was published, about 1900, the authentic manuscript drawings were omitted and other elements, including the archeological records, were disregarded. A rich interplay of historic traditions was reduced to oversimplified formulations.In the new edition, the western and eastern traditions of the Pneumatica are juxtaposed for the first time. The work is reproduced as a facsimile from Clm 534, a Latin codex of the XIVth century, with the authentic illustrations. There follows a transcript of this facsimile, collated with a score of earlier and later copies. Also included are newly discovered Greek, Latin-Gothic, and Italian forms of Philo's work, and a full English translation, which presents the Arabic version (aya-Sofya ms. 3713) with its stylistically remarkable drawings and with separate notes in Latin text supplements and variants.In this annotations, the editor evaluates the physical demonstration of this work, as a contribution to the growth of the experimental method. He also discusses the probable periods when individual parts and versions of the "Pneumatica" were developed, after Philo's writing of the original work, and the various times during which the work exercised technical or scientific influence. German description: Philo, ein Mann aus der griechischen Kolonie Byzanz, war um 200 v. Chr. in Alexandria und Rhodos tatig. Er ist beruhmt als einer der fruhesten Lehrer der Kriegswissenschaft. Auch ist er bekannt als Verfasser anderer wissenschaftlicher Werke, einschliesslich eines Werks uber die Mechanik der Luft und des Wassers. Nach einem Zeitraum von einigen Jahrhunderten, wahrend derer seine "Pneumatica" vergessen war, sind lateinische und arabische Fassungen des Werks seit 1870 wiederentdeckt worden. Philos Werk ist ein ausfuhrlich illustriertes Lehrbuch mit physikalischen Darstellungen. Jedoch fehlen in den bisher vorliegenden Veroffentlichungen, die aus der Zeit um 1900 stammen, sowohl die in den Handschriften enthaltenen authentischen Zeichnungen als auch die archaologischen Funde und sonstige einschlagige Elemente. Der vielschichtige Strom der geschichtlichen Uberlieferung ist in diesen Veroffentlichungen auf allzu einfache Formeln reduziert worden.In der neuen Ausgabe werden die ost-westlichen Gestaltungen der "Pneumatica" erstmals nebeneinander dargestellt. Das Werk wird als Faksimile Clm 534, einem lateinischen Codex des 14. Jahrhunderts, mit den authentischen Bildern wiedergegeben. Es folgt eine Umschrift des Faksimiletextes mit Kollationierung aus etwa 20 Kopien fruheren und spateren Datums. Aufgrund neuer Entdeckungen folgen griechische, lateinisch-gotische und italienische Formen von Philos Werk, sowie eine vollstandige Ubersetzung ins Englische anhand einer arabischen Fassung mit Wiedergabe ihrer stilistisch bemerkenswerten Zeichnungen und mit Ubersetzung verschiedener lateinischer Text-Erganzungen und -Varianten.Die Ausfuhrungen des Herausgebers wurdigen die physikalische Darstellung Philos als Beitrag zur Entwicklung der experimentellen Methode. Sie besprechen auch die wahrscheinlichen Zeitraume nach Philos ursprunglicher Niederschrift, wahrend derer einzelne Teile und Fassungen weiterentwickelt wurden.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783920153322
  • Publisher: Dr Ludwig Reichert
  • Publisher Imprint: Dr Ludwig Reichert
  • Height: 244 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Series Title: English
  • Sub Title: The First Treatise on Experimental Phyics: Western Vesion and Eastern Version. Facsimile and Transcript of the Latin Manuscript, Codex Latinus Monac
  • Width: 173 mm
  • ISBN-10: 3920153324
  • Publisher Date: 29 Mar 1990
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Weight: 612 gr


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