Author: Morris Raphael CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A Source Book in Greek Science
Author: Morris Raphael CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A Source Book in Greek Science
Author: Morris Raphael CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 581
Book Description
A Source Book in Greek Science
Author: Morris R. CohenGreek Science of the Hellenistic Era
Author: Georgia L. Irby-MassiePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 113455639X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100 scientific authors active from 320 BCE to 230 CE. The book begins with an outline of a new socio-political model for the development and decline of Greek science, followed by eleven chapters that cover the main disciplines: * the science which the Greeks saw as fundamental - mathematics * astronomy * astrology and geography * mechanics * optics and pneumatics * the non-mathematical sciences of alchemy, biology, medicine and 'psychology'. Each chapter contains an accessible introduction on the origins and development of the topic in question, and all the authors are set in context with brief biographies.
Greek Medicine
Author: James LongriggPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136782184
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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Author: Morris Raphael CohenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 579
Book Description
Greek and Roman Technology: A Sourcebook
Author: Andrew N. SherwoodPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134926219
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
In this volume the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient authors to provide a history and an analysis of the origins and development of technology. Among the topics covered are: * energy * basic mechanical devices * agriculture * food processing and diet * mining and metallurgy * construction and hydraulic engineering * household industry * transport and trade * military technology. The sourcebook presents 150 ancient authors and a diverse range of literary genres, such as, the encyclopedic Natural Histories of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophy of Plato, Aristotle and Lucretius and the agricultural treatise of Varro. Humphrey, Oleson and Sherwood provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Glossaries of technological terminology, indices of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and a recent bibliography make this volume a valuable research and teaching tool.
A Source Book in Medieval Science
Author: Edward GrantPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674823600
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 890
Book Description
This Source Book explores a millennium of European scientific thought accompanied by critical commentary and annotation; nearly half the selections appear for the first time in the vernacular. Representing "science" in the medieval sense, selections include alchemy, astrology, logic, and theology as well as mathematics, physics, and biology.
A Source Book in Greek Science
Author: Gregory D. WalcottPublisher:
ISBN: 9787507556704
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Greek City States
Author: P. J. RhodesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139462121
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 15
Book Description
Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself are Greek words for concepts first discussed in Greece. Rhodes presents in translation a selection of texts illustrating the formal mechanisms and informal workings of the Greek states in all their variety. From the states described by Homer out of which the classical Greeks believed their states had developed, through the archaic period which saw the rise and fall of tyrants and the gradual broadening of citizen bodies, to the classical period of the fifth and fourth centuries, Rhodes also looks beyond that to the Hellenistic and Roman periods in which the Greeks tried to preserve their way of life in a world of great powers. For this second edition the book has been thoroughly revised and three new chapters added.