The history of science from the ancient Greeks to the scientific revolution

Spangenburg, Ray, 1939- author.

Book 1993

Surveys the early history of science, discussing the philosophical underpinnings developed by Greek thinkers, continuing through the developments of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and concluding with the discoveries of the seventeenth century.

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On the shoulders of giants Spangenburg, Ray, 1939- On the shoulders of giants

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ISBN:

9780816027392
0816027390

Description:

ix, 166 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-158) and index

Contents:

Thales of Miletus.--Anaximander.--Pythagoras.--Alcmaeon.--Heraclitus.--Anaxagoras.--Democritus.--Aristotle.--Aristarchus.--Hipparchus.--Ptolemy.--Archimedes.--Averroes.--Galen.--Dioscorides.--Copernicus.--Tycho Brahe.--Johannes Kepler.--Galileo.--William Gilbert.--Giordano Bruno.--Isaac Newton.--Andreas Vesalius.--paracelsus.--Sanctorius.--William Harvey.--Marcello Malpighi.--Giovanni Borelli.--Jan Swammerdam.--Robert Hooke.--Antony van Leeuwenhoek.--Konrad Gesner.--John Ray.--Francesco Redi

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92033180

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49429

Other Authors:

Moser, Diane, 1944-

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