TY - BOOK ID - 22160426 TI - Hellenistic Science at Court PY - 2017 SN - 9783110539776 3110539772 3110540150 3110541939 9783110541939 9783110540154 9783110658880 9783110541946 3110541947 PB - Berlin Boston DB - UniCat KW - Science, Ancient. KW - Egypt KW - History KW - E-books KW - Science KW - Ptolemy KW - Intellectual life. KW - Natural science KW - Science of science KW - Sciences KW - Ptolemaios KW - Natural sciences KW - Hellenistic science. KW - Interdisciplinarity. KW - court society. KW - emergence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22160426 AB - The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity. ER -