ENGLISH

Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook (Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World)

By Paul T. Keyser , Georgia L. Irby-Massie

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2001
ISBN
041523848X, 9780415238489, 0415238471, 9780415238472
LCC
Q127.G7 I72 2002
Google Books ID
qXZo6oOr9SgC
Open Library ID
OL19546880M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3938570 bytes)
Series
Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
Edition
1
Pages
431\431
Topic
History
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00
Исторические дисциплины;Всемирная история;История

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.

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