Homo Faber. Studies on Nature, Technology, and Science at the Time of Pompeii.

Preface: The Knowledge of Homo Faber: Studies on Nature, Technology, and Science at the Time of Pompeii, P. Giovanni Guzzo and J. Renn; Introduction: On the Trail of Knowledge from a Sunken City, J. Renn; Part I: Craftsmanship and Technology: The Engine Lost: Hydraulic Technologies in Pompeii, V. Marchis and G. Scalva; Pneumatics on Stage in Pompeii: Ancient Automatic Devices and their Social Context, A. Schürmann; Vines and Wines in Ancient Pompeii: an Ancient Technology Revivified, P. Mastroberardino; Glasses from Pompeii and Herculaneum and the Sands of the Rivers Belus and Volturno, M. Vallotto, M. Verità; The Fabrication of Roman Machines, G. Di Pasquale; The Concept of Machina in the Roman Period, M. Popplow; PART II: Practical and Theoretical Knowledge: Mechanical Knowledge and Pompeian Balances, P. Damerow, J. Renn, S. Rieger, P. Weinig; Drawings in Ancient Treatises on Mechanics, W. Lefèvre; Optics and the Visual Arts: The Role of Skhnografiva, F. Camerota; Ancient Meteorology: Astronomy and Weather Prediction in the Roman Period, L. TAUB; About an Ancient Medical Mixture Found in Pompeii, A. ciarallo; Reconstructing Medical Knowledge in Ancient Pompeii from the Hard Evidence of Bones, Teeth, M. Henneberg and R. J. Henneberg.