The Cambridge companion to Ancient Greek and Roman science

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"This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics, and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient Greek mathematical texts, while several chapters confront key questions in the philosophy of science such as the relationship bet...

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Medicine, Greek and Roman

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Science, Ancient

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Cambridge companions to philosophy

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ISBN:

9781107465763

Description:

ix, 344 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Ancient Greek and Roman science
Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman science

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Contents:

Presocratic natural philosophy / Patricia Curd
Reason, experience, and art: the Gorgias and On Ancient Medicine / James Allen
Toward a science of life: the cosmological method, teleology, and living things / Klaus Corcilius
Aristotle on the matter for birth, life, and the elements / David Ebrey
From craft to nature: the emergence of natural teleology / Thomas Kjeller Johansen
Creationism in antiquity / David Sedley
What's a plant? / Laurence M. V. Totelin
Meteorology / Monte Ransome Johnson
Ancient Greek mathematics / Nathan Sidoli
Astronomy in its contexts
Ancient Greek mechanics and the mechanical hypothesis / Sylvia Berryman
Measuring musical beauty: instruments, reason, and perception in ancient harmonics / Massimo Raffa
Ancient Greek historiography of science / Leonid Zhmud

Control Number:

3325926

Other Authors:

Taub, Liba, 1954- editor

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