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

Contributor(s):

Taub, Liba [editor]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Cambridge companions to philosophyPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2020Description: ix, 344 pagesContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781107465763

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

509.37

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

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Barcode
Book	Greater Project 4 Branch Reference Section	Reference	R 509.37 C178 2020 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Room use only	53043QC

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and indexes.