The Origins Of Ancient Greek Science
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Author |
: Michael Boylan |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 274 |
Release |
: 2015-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135013288 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135013284 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (88 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Origins of Ancient Greek Science by : Michael Boylan
This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical writers in the ancient world, as well as to the philosophical and literary work of writers prior to the Hippocratic authors, produce an interesting story of how science progressed and the critical context in which important methodological questions were addressed. The end result is an account that arises from debates that are engaged in and "solved" by different writers. These stopping points form the foundation for Harvey and for modern philosophy of biology. Author Michael Boylan sets out the history of science as well as a critical evaluation based upon principles in the contemporary canon of the philosophy of science—particularly those dealing with the philosophy of biology.
Author |
: Morris Raphael Cohen |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 581 |
Release |
: 1969 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:1040071752 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Source Book in Greek Science by : Morris Raphael Cohen
Author |
: G E R Lloyd |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 149 |
Release |
: 2012-09-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448156719 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448156718 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Early Greek Science by : G E R Lloyd
In this new series leading classical scholars interpret afresh the ancient world for the modern reader. They stress those questions and institutions that most concern us today: the interplay between economic factors and politics, the struggle to find a balance between the state and the individual, the role of the intellectual. Most of the books in this series centre on the great focal periods, those of great literature and art: the world of Herodotus and the tragedians, Plato and Aristotle, Cicero and Caesar, Virgil, Horace and Tacitus. This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers and Aristotle. G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between science and philosophy and science and medicine; he discusses the social and economic setting of Greek science; he analyses the motives and incentives of the different groups of writers.
Author |
: T. E. Rihll |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 180 |
Release |
: 1999-11-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0199223955 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780199223954 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Science by : T. E. Rihll
Greek 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.
Author |
: Georgia L. Irby-Massie |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 440 |
Release |
: 2013-02-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134556397 |
ISBN-13 |
: 113455639X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era by : Georgia L. Irby-Massie
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.
Author |
: G E R Lloyd |
Publisher |
: Random House |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2013-08-31 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781448190317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1448190312 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Science After Aristotle by : G E R Lloyd
In his previous volume in this series, Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle, G. E. R. Lloyd pointed out that although there is no exact equivalent to our term ‘science’ in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks. In this second volume, Greek Science after Aristotle, the author continues his discussion of the fundamental Greek contributions to science, drawing on the richer literary and archaeological sources for the period after Aristotle. Particular attention is paid to the Greeks’ conception of the inquiries they were engaged in, and to the interrelations of science and technology. In the first part of the book the author considers the two hundred years after the death of Aristotle, devoting separate chapters to mathematics, astronomy and biology. He goes on to deal with Ptolemy and Galen and concludes with a discussion of later writers and of the problems raised by the question of the decline of ancient science.
Author |
: Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd |
Publisher |
: Hackett Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 378 |
Release |
: 1999-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0872205282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780872205284 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Magic, Reason, and Experience by : Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
This study of the origins and progress of Greek science focuses especially on the interaction between scientific and traditional patterns of thought from the sixth to the fourth century BC. It begins with an examination of how particular Greek authors deployed the category of "magic," sometimes attacking its beliefs and practices; these attacks are then related to their background in Greek medicine and philosophical thought. In his second chapter Lloyd outlines developments in the theory and practice of argument in Greek science and assesses their significance. He next discuses the progress of empirical research as a scientific tool from the Presocratics to Aristotle. Finally, he considers why the Greeks invented science, their contribution to its history, and the social, economic, ideological and political factors that had a bearing on its growth.
Author |
: Christopher Tuplin |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 384 |
Release |
: 2002 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0198152485 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780198152484 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (85 Downloads) |
Synopsis Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture by : Christopher Tuplin
Ancient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international experts, examines the role and achievement of science and mathematics in Greek antiquity through discussion of the linguistic, literary, political, religious, sociological, and technological factors which influenced scientific thought and practice.
Author |
: Kris Bordessa |
Publisher |
: Nomad Press |
Total Pages |
: 259 |
Release |
: 2006-07-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781936749133 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1936749130 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Synopsis TOOLS OF THE ANCIENT GREEKS by : Kris Bordessa
Tools of the Ancient Greeks: A Kid’s Guide to the History and Science of Life in Ancient Greece explores the scientific discoveries, athletic innovations, engineering marvels, and innovative ideas created more than two thousand years ago. Through biographical sidebars, interesting facts, fascinating anecdotes, and fifteen hands-on activities, readers will learn how Greek innovations and ideas have shaped world history and our own world view.
Author |
: P. Nicolacopoulos |
Publisher |
: Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages |
: 438 |
Release |
: 2012-12-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789400920156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9400920156 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Greek Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science by : P. Nicolacopoulos
Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world. Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R. S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader (socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only 160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider ably smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled after World War II).