TY - BOOK AU - Taub,Liba TI - The Cambridge companion to ancient Greek and Roman science T2 - Cambridge companions to philosophy SN - 9781107465763 U1 - 509.37 PY - 2020/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Science, Ancient KW - Science KW - Greece KW - History KW - Rome N1 - 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 ER -