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| Accesso online: | https://brill.com/view/journals/nun/nun-overview.xml |
| Autore principale: | Taub, Liba Chaia, 1954-
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| Titolo: | Celebrating science in ancient Greece and Rome / Liba Taub. |
| Abstract: | Current ideas about the aims and value of scientific work and knowledge may be part of our inherited legacy from Greco-Roman antiquity. While financial rewards were important in the past and are important today, when we look at individual ancient Greeks and Romans known for their scientific ideas and achievement, we see that a number of these were avowedly pursuing science for a gain which was very specific, but not financial. Motivations might include intellectual curiosity and a desire for personal improvement, including increased understanding, as well as an interest in gaining reputation and influencing posterity. In Greco-Roman antiquity there were various ways in which an individual's scientific achievements could be celebrated, commemorated, honoured and memorialised; several are considered here |
| In: |  Prizes and awards in science before Nobel. p. 246-257 |
| Discipline: | Scienze--Studi specifici. |
| Luoghi: | Grecia antica. Roma antica. |
| Sudd. cronologiche: | Mondo antico--Area greco-romana. |
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