This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. It will spark renewed discussion about the character of 'ancient' versus 'modern' science.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. It will spark renewed discussion about the character of 'ancient' versus 'modern' science.
Introduction Liba Taub 1. Presocratic natural philosophy Patricia Curd 2. Reason, experience and art: the Gorgias and On Ancient Medicine James Allen 3. Towards a science of life: the cosmological method, teleology and living things Klaus Corcilius 4. Aristotle on the matter for birth, life and the elements David Ebrey 5. From craft to nature: the emergence of natural teleology Thomas Johansen 6. Creationism in antiquity David Sedley 7. What's a plant? Laurence M. V. Totelin 8. Meteorology Monte Ransome Johnson 9. Ancient Greek mathematics Nathan Sidoli 10. Astronomy in its contexts Liba Taub 11. Ancient Greek mechanics and the mechanical hypothesis Sylvia Berryman 12. Measuring musical beauty: instruments, reason and perception in ancient harmonics Massimo Raffa 13. Ancient Greek historiography of science Leonid Zhmud.
Introduction Liba Taub 1. Presocratic natural philosophy Patricia Curd 2. Reason, experience and art: the Gorgias and On Ancient Medicine James Allen 3. Towards a science of life: the cosmological method, teleology and living things Klaus Corcilius 4. Aristotle on the matter for birth, life and the elements David Ebrey 5. From craft to nature: the emergence of natural teleology Thomas Johansen 6. Creationism in antiquity David Sedley 7. What's a plant? Laurence M. V. Totelin 8. Meteorology Monte Ransome Johnson 9. Ancient Greek mathematics Nathan Sidoli 10. Astronomy in its contexts Liba Taub 11. Ancient Greek mechanics and the mechanical hypothesis Sylvia Berryman 12. Measuring musical beauty: instruments, reason and perception in ancient harmonics Massimo Raffa 13. Ancient Greek historiography of science Leonid Zhmud.
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