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ISBN-13: 9781107092488

Book Title: The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

ISBN: 9781107092488

Subject Area: Philosophy

Publication Name: Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Item Length: 9.3 in

Subject: History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

Publication Year: 2020

Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Ser.

Type: Textbook

Format: Hardcover

Language: English

Item Height: 0.9 in

Author: Liba Taub

Item Weight: 22 Oz

Item Width: 6.1 in

Number of Pages: 356 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

ISBN-10

1107092485

ISBN-13

9781107092488

eBay Product ID (ePID)

4038761189

Product Key Features

Number of Pages

356 Pages

Language

English

Publication Name

Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

Publication Year

2020

Subject

History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical

Type

Textbook

Subject Area

Philosophy

Author

Liba Taub

Series

Cambridge Companions to Philosophy Ser.

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height

0.9 in

Item Weight

22 Oz

Item Length

9.3 in

Item Width

6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience

Scholarly & Professional

Reviews

'... this Cambridge Companion is an excellent introductory guide to many areas of science-style inquiry in classical antiquity, and it is especially useful for less well known domains like botany, music, mechanics, or meteorology. In another way its authors' diverse choices offer a snapshot of our current relationship to Greco-Roman philosophical and scientific activity: our questions about its history are open-ended, even if a high proportion of them are still about Aristotle.' Philippa Lang Isis, Isis, a Journal of the History of Science Society

TitleLeading

The

Dewey Edition

Illustrated

Yes

Dewey Decimal

509.37

Table Of Content

Introduction Liba Taub; 1. Presocratic natural philosophy Patricia Curd; 2. Reason, experience and art: the Gorgias and On Ancient Medicine James Allen; 3. Towards a science of life: the cosmological method, teleology and living things Klaus Corcilius; 4. Aristotle on the matter for birth, life and the elements David Ebrey; 5. From craft to nature: the emergence of natural teleology Thomas Johansen; 6. Creationism in antiquity David Sedley; 7. What's a plant? Laurence M. V. Totelin; 8. Meteorology Monte Ransome Johnson; 9. Ancient Greek mathematics Nathan Sidoli; 10. Astronomy in its contexts Liba Taub; 11. Ancient Greek mechanics and the mechanical hypothesis Sylvia Berryman; 12. Measuring musical beauty: instruments, reason and perception in ancient harmonics Massimo Raffa; 13. Ancient Greek historiography of science Leonid Zhmud.

Synopsis

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. It will spark renewed discussion about the character of 'ancient' versus 'modern' science., This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient Greek mathematical texts, while several chapters confront key questions in the philosophy of science such as the relationship between evidence and explanation. The volume will spark renewed discussion about the character of 'ancient' versus 'modern' science, and will broaden readers' understanding of the rich traditions of ancient Greco-Roman natural philosophy, science, medicine and mathematics.