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This collection of essays explores processes of innovation in Greco-Roman technology and science. It uses the concept of 'anchoring' to investigate the microhistories of technological and scientific practices and ideas. The volume combines broad, theoretical essays with more targeted case studies of individual inventions and innovations. In doing so, it moves beyond the emphasis on achievement that has traditionally characterized modern scholarship on ancient technology and science. Instead, the chapters of this volume analyse the manifold ways in which new technologies and ideas were anchored in what was already known and familiar, and highlight how, once familiar, technologies and ideas could themselves become anchoring points for inventions and innovations.
Contents
Foreword
List of Figures
1 Anchoring, Science and Technology in Greco-Roman Antiquity—an Introduction
Miko Flohr, Teun Tieleman, and Stephan Mols
Part 1: Anchoring
2 How the Romans Conceived their Roads: Inner Experience in the Anchoring of Technological Innovation
James W. McAllister
3 Anchoring Innovation as a Form of Social Construction of Technology
Wiebe E. Bijker
4 Beyond Innovation: Early Modern European Technological Values
Lorraine Daston
5 Ancient Greek Doors and Their Humans
Ineke Sluiter
Part 2: Innovation
6 The Reinforcement System of the Theban Treasury in Delphi
Jean Vanden Broeck-Parant
7 From Ashlar to Brick: Anchoring and Innovation in Roman Building Practice
Miko Flohr
8 Tiberius and the Threat of Innovation
Serena Connolly
9 Functional Innovation in Bookcraft in Roman Egypt
Mark de Kreij
Part 3: Technology
10 Anchoring, Innovation, and Ancient Near Eastern Technology
Jill L. Baker
11 From Hand-Bow to Torsion Artillery Devices: Technological Innovation and the Human Factor
Maria Gerolemou
12 Risky Business: Anchoring Blown Glass and Terra Sigillata Production in the Face of Risk
Anna Soifer
13 Models and Modeling in Roman Technology
Rabun Taylor
14 Of Myths and Machines: Anchoring Technology in Mythology in Imperial Rome
Michiel Meeusen
Part 4: Science
15 Authorizing Prognosis in Prometheus Bound
Marianne Govers Hopman
16 Anchoring in tekhnê. Weaving and Plato's Distinction of Pure and Applied Knowledge
Giovanni Fanfani, Ellen Harlizius-Klück, and Annapurna Mamidipudi
17 Cultural and Cognitive Anchoring in Hero of Alexandria's Metrica
Courtney Roby
18 Galen's Use of Hippocrates as an Anchor for Medical Innovation
Teun Tieleman
Index