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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: 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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Book 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.

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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