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Time and Ancient Medicine : How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science by Kassandra J. Miller is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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Time and Ancient Medicine is the first monograph to explore, on the one hand, how the introduction of new timekeeping technologies (namely, sundials and water clocks) affected the practice, rhetoric, and philosophy of ancient medicine and, on the other hand, how medical timekeeping practices affected engagement with time elsewhere in society. The study seeks, first, to offer a chronological narrative of how timekeeping technologies and medical practices evolved and influenced one another in anci
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Kassandra J. Miller
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press USA
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780198885191
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Science, Time, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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