Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
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Liba Taub
简介
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.
目录
List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
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1 Presocratic Natural Philosophy 15
Patricia Curd
2 Reason, Experience, and Art: The Gorgias and On
Ancient Medicine 39
James Allen
3 Towards a Science of Life: The Cosmological Method,
Teleology, and Living Things 58
Klaus Corcilius
4 Aristotle on the Matter for Birth, Life, and the Elements 79
David Ebrey
5 From Craft to Nature: The Emergence of Natural Teleology 102
Thomas Kjeller Johansen
6 Creationism in Antiquity 121
David Sedley
7 What’s a Plant? 141
Laurence M. V. Totelin
8 Meteorology 160
Monte Ransome Johnson
9 Ancient Greek Mathematics 185
Nathan Sidoli
10 Astronomy in Its Contexts 208
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11 Ancient Greek Mechanics and the Mechanical Hypothesis 229
Sylvia Berryman
12 Measuring Musical Beauty: Instruments, Reason, and
Perception in Ancient Harmonics 248
Massimo Raffa
13 Ancient Greek Historiography of Science 268
Leonid Zhmud
Bibliography 289
Index Locorum 319
General Index 332