Greek ScienceGreek Science, first published in 1999, is written for scientists, classicists, historians of science, and anyone with an interest in the beginnings of science. It surveys the range and scope of ancient work on topics now called science, at a lively pace and with colourful examples. It encompasses ancient empirical studies as well as theoretical works, the life sciences and the exact sciences, and is written by one of the foremost authorities on ancient science and technology. No knowledge of Greek, Latin, or ancient history is assumed. |
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Aelian Almagest Ancient Greek ancient scientific angle animals antiquity appear Archimedes Aristarkhos Aristophanes Aristotle Aristotle's astrology astronomy body called celestial Celsus centre chapter Classical classicist Cohen and Drabkin colour Columella commentary context culture discussion drugs earth Elements empire English translation Euclid Euclid's Elements Eudoxos example explain fire fluid Galen geography geometry Greece Greek mathematics Greek science healers Heath heavens Herodotos Herophilos Hipparkhos historian human ideas intellectual interest less Lloyd Loeb London matter medicine Meteorology method modern moon motion Mount St Helens move nature Nutton observations Oppian Oxford Phainomena phenomena philosophers physical plants Pliny NH Plutarch polymaths Poseidonios postulates problem Ptolemy Ptolemy's Pythagoras ratio reader Roman scholars scientific texts scientists Seleukos Seneca sometimes sort sources square stars Strabo surviving Theophrastos theorem theories things tradition trans treatise Vegetius weight wrote