| Introduction | 9 |
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| A. Comparisons | 23 |
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| The Name and Nature of Science: Authorship in Social and Evolutionary Context | 25 |
| Ancient Writings, Modern Conceptions of Authorship. Reflections on Some Historical Processes That Shaped the Oldest Extant Mathematical Sources from Ancient China | 71 |
| Scholarship and Competitiveness: Pliny the Elder’s Attitude towards His Predecessors in the Naturalis Historia | 91 |
| B. Greek Medical Writing | 117 |
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| Writing the Animal: Aristotle, Pliny the Elder, Galen | 119 |
| Galen and the Scientific Treatise: a Case Study of Mixtures | 153 |
| Galen on Poetic Testimony- | 185 |
| The Violent Scholiast: Power Issues in Ancient Commentaries- | 199 |
| C. Greek Mathematical Writing | 223 |
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| Authorial Presence in the Ancient Exact Sciences | 225 |
| Accounts, Numeracy and Democracy in Classical Athens | 263 |
| Diagrammatic Reasoning: the Foundations of Mechanics | 287 |
| Three Introductions to Celestial Science in the First Century BC | 307 |
| D. Science Writing as/and Literature | 339 |
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| On the Variety of ‘Genres’ of Greek Mathematical Writing: Thinking about Mathematical Texts and Modes of Mathematical Discourse | 341 |
| Sing, Muse, of the Hypotenuse: Influences of Poetry and Rhetoric on the Formation of Greek Mathematics | 375 |
| Making up Progress – in Ancient Greek Science Writing | 419 |
| In Strange Lands: Disembodied Authority and the Role of the Physician in the Hippocratic Corpus and Beyond | 439 |
| Notes on Contributors | 481 |
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| General Index | 485 |
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| Index Locorum | 493 |
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