The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 356
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 227mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9781107465763
• ISBN-10: 1107465761
• Artikelnr.: 57633717

Inhaltsangabe

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.