The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek and Roman science
The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek and Roman science
/ edited by Liba Taub
- ix, 344 pages
- Cambridge companions to philosophy .
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
9781107465763
Science, Ancient
Science--History--Greece
Science--History--Rome
509.37
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
9781107465763
Science, Ancient
Science--History--Greece
Science--History--Rome
509.37