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The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek and Roman science / edited by Liba Taub.

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Contributor(s): Series: Cambridge companions to philosophyPublisher: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: ix, 344 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781107092488
  • 1107092485
  • 9781107465763
  • 1107465761
Other title:
  • Ancient Greek and Roman science
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: ebook version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 23 c178
Contents:
Introduction / Lisa Taub -- 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 / Lisa Taub -- 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
Summary: "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 between evidence and explanation. The volume will spark renewed discussion about the character of 'ancient' versus 'modern' science, and will broaden readers' understanding of the rich traditions of ancient Greco-Roman natural philosophy, science, medicine, and mathematics"--Page [4] of coner.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and indexes.

Introduction / Lisa Taub -- 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 / Lisa Taub -- 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

"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 between evidence and explanation. The volume will spark renewed discussion about the character of 'ancient' versus 'modern' science, and will broaden readers' understanding of the rich traditions of ancient Greco-Roman natural philosophy, science, medicine, and mathematics"--Page [4] of coner.