The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek and Roman science 
/ edited by Liba Taub 
 - ix, 344 pages 
 - Cambridge companions to philosophy .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-318) and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781107465763 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Science, Ancient<br/>Science--History--Greece<br/>Science--History--Rome
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>509.37