Greek Science In Antiquity
Title | Greek Science In Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Marshall Clagett |
Publisher | Pickle Partners Publishing |
Pages | 396 |
Release | 2016-03-28 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1786258579 |
In this volume I have attempted to give especial and marked attention to the fate of Greek science in late antiquity. Elementary texts in the past have long ignored this aspect of Greek science. The importance of the course of Greek science in late antiquity is evident, for it was during this period that much of the Greek scientific corpus was put into the form in which it passed to the medieval Latin West. We are justified, then, in considering this volume as an introduction to medieval and early modern science—that science being considered as a transformation of Greek science.
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity
Title | Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity PDF eBook |
Author | Liba Taub |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 211 |
Release | 2017-04-13 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0521113709 |
This book explores how science and mathematics were communicated in antiquity in a wide variety of texts, including poetry, letters and biographies.
Greek Science After Aristotle
Title | Greek Science After Aristotle PDF eBook |
Author | G E R Lloyd |
Publisher | Random House |
Pages | 216 |
Release | 2013-08-31 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 1448190312 |
In his previous volume in this series, Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle, G. E. R. Lloyd pointed out that although there is no exact equivalent to our term ‘science’ in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks. In this second volume, Greek Science after Aristotle, the author continues his discussion of the fundamental Greek contributions to science, drawing on the richer literary and archaeological sources for the period after Aristotle. Particular attention is paid to the Greeks’ conception of the inquiries they were engaged in, and to the interrelations of science and technology. In the first part of the book the author considers the two hundred years after the death of Aristotle, devoting separate chapters to mathematics, astronomy and biology. He goes on to deal with Ptolemy and Galen and concludes with a discussion of later writers and of the problems raised by the question of the decline of ancient science.
The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
Title | The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science PDF eBook |
Author | Liba Taub |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 359 |
Release | 2020-01-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1107092485 |
Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.
Greek Science
Title | Greek Science PDF eBook |
Author | T. E. Rihll |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 180 |
Release | 1999-11-11 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199223954 |
Greek Science, first published in 1999, is written for scientists, classicists, historians of science, and anyone with an interest in the beginnings of science. It surveys the range and scope of ancient work on topics now called science, at a lively pace and with colourful examples. It encompasses ancient empirical studies as well as theoretical works, the life sciences and the exact sciences, and is written by one of the foremost authorities on ancient science and technology. No knowledge of Greek, Latin, or ancient history is assumed.
Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
Title | Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Christopher Tuplin |
Publisher | |
Pages | 384 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780198152484 |
Ancient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international experts, examines the role and achievement of science and mathematics in Greek antiquity through discussion of the linguistic, literary, political, religious, sociological, and technological factors which influenced scientific thought and practice.
The Science of Man in Ancient Greece
Title | The Science of Man in Ancient Greece PDF eBook |
Author | Maria Michela Sassi |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 288 |
Release | 2001-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780226735306 |
Thus, because women were assumed to have pale skin from staying indoors too much, Greek biology and medicine sought to explain this feature as an indication of the "cold" nature of women, as opposed to the "hot" constitution of men.".