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| Accesso online: | https://amsdottorato.unibo.it/10376/ |
| Autore principale: | Morrone, Daniele.
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| Titolo: | Plutarch's chemistry of stones and metals : conceptions and explanations : with an appendix on the TheSu XML annotation scheme / Daniele Morrone. |
| Note: | Tesi di dottorato in Philosophy, science, cognition and semiotics, XXXIV ciclo, Università degli studi di Bologna, 2022 Tutor: Matteo Martelli |
| Abstract: | This dissertation presents a systematic and analytic overview of most of the information related to stones, minerals, and stone masonry which is found in the corpus of Plutarch of Chaeronea, combined with most of the information on metals and metalworking which is connected to the former. This survey is intended as a first step in the reconstruction of the full landscape of 'chemical' ideas occurring in Plutarch's writings; accordingly, the exposition of the relevant passages, the assessment of their possible interpretations, the discussion on their implications, and their contextualization in the ancient traditions have been conducted with a special interest in the 'mineralogical' and 'metallurgic' themes developed in the frame of natural philosophy and meteorology. Although in this perspective physical etiology could have come to acquire central prominence, non-etiological information on Plutarch's ideas on the nature and behaviour of stones and metals has been treated as equally relevant to reach a fuller understanding of how Plutarch conceptualized and visualized them in general, in- and outside the frame of philosophical explanation. Such extensive outline of Plutarch's ideas on stones and metals is a prerequisite for an accurate inquiry into his use of the two in analogies, metaphors, and symbols: to predispose this kind of research was another aim of the present survey, and this aim has contributed to shape it; moreover, a special attention has been paid to the analysis of analogical and figurative speaking due to the nature itself of a large part of Plutarch's references to stones and metals, which are either metaphorical, presented in close association with metaphors, or framed in analogies. Much of the information used for the present overview has been extracted -always with supporting argumentation- from the implications of such metaphors and analogies. It is a guiding assumption of this research that inquiries such as the present and its planned developments would be significantly facilitated by the availability of a digital tool for the indexing and mapping of ideas and of their contexts of enunciation in the texts conveying them. TheSu (Thesis-Support) is an XML annotation scheme designed for this specific end, intended to be flexible enough to aid a large variety of research objectives in intellectual history. This tool is presented in the introduction to this dissertation along with examples of its possible utility, quantitative analyses, and visualizations of TheSu-encoded data extracted from an integral case annotation of Plutarch's Aquane an ignis utilior sit. The appendix to this dissertation presents the human-readable definitions of all the elements and attributes of TheSu, exported from the digital documentation of its XML Schema definition document (version 0.72) |
| Altri autori: | Martelli, Matteo, 1975-
Università degli studi (Bologna). |
| Collezione tematica: | Tesi di dottorato di interesse storico-scientifico (Italia).
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