2002 - L'Erma di Bretschneider
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Reconstructing Medical Knowledge in Ancient Pompeii From the Hard Evidence of Bones and Teeth
P. 171-187
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ISSN: 2283-3358
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In this issue
- Preface : the Knowledge of Homo Faber : Studies on Nature, Technology, and Science at the Time of Pompeii
- Introduction : On the Trail of Knowledge from a Sunken City
- The Engine Lost : Hydraulic Technologies in Pompeii
- Pneumatics on Stage in Pompeii : Ancient Automatic Devices and their Social Context
- Vines and Wines in Ancient Pompeii : an Ancient Technology Revivified
- Glasses from Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Sands of the Rivers Belus and Volturno
- The Fabrication of Roman Machines
- The Concept of Machina in the Roman Period
- Mechanical Knowledge and Pompeian Balances
- Drawings in Ancient Treatises on Mechanics
- Optics and the Visual Arts : the Role of Schenografia
- Ancient Meteorology : Astronomy and Weather Prediction in the Roman Period
- About an Ancient Medical Mixture Found in Pompeii
- Reconstructing Medical Knowledge in Ancient Pompeii From the Hard Evidence of Bones and Teeth