Ancient Natural History

Author : Roger French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134962679

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Ancient Natural History by Roger French Pdf

Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French finds that the same natural-historical material was used to serve the purposes of both the Greek philosopher and the Christian allegorist, or of a taxonomist like Theophrastus and a collector of curiosa like Pliny. He argues convincingly that the motives of ancient writers on nature were rarely `scientific' and, indeed, that there was not really any science at all in the ancient world. This book will make fascinating reading for students, academics and anyone who is interested in the history of science, or in the ancient history of ideas.

Author : Edward Grant,Professor Emeritus Edward Grant
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521869317

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A History of Natural Philosophy by Edward Grant,Professor Emeritus Edward Grant Pdf

This book describes how natural philosophy and exact mathematical sciences joined together to make the Scientific Revolution possible.

Author : Roger French
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005-08-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781134962686

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Ancient Natural History by Roger French Pdf

Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature and finds that the same material was used to justify both Greek philosopher and Christian allegorist.

Author : Helen Anne Curry,Nicholas Jardine,James Andrew Secord,Emma C. Spary
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-22
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781316510315

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Worlds of Natural History by Helen Anne Curry,Nicholas Jardine,James Andrew Secord,Emma C. Spary Pdf

Explores the development of natural history since the Renaissance and contextualizes current discussions of biodiversity.

Author : Greg Woolf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190618568

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The Life and Death of Ancient Cities by Greg Woolf Pdf

The dramatic story of the rise and collapse of Europe's first great urban experiment The growth of cities around the world in the last two centuries is the greatest episode in our urban history, but it is not the first. Three thousand years ago most of the Mediterranean basin was a world of villages; a world without money or writing, without temples for the gods or palaces for the mighty. Over the centuries that followed, however, cities appeared in many places around the Inland Sea, built by Greeks and Romans, and also by Etruscans and Phoenicians, Tartessians and Lycians, and many others. Most were tiny by modern standards, but they were the building blocks of all the states and empires of antiquity. The greatest--Athens and Corinth, Syracuse and Marseilles, Alexandria and Ephesus, Persepolis and Carthage, Rome and Byzantium--became the powerhouses of successive ancient societies, not just political centers but also the places where ancient art and literatures were created and accumulated. And then, half way through the first millennium, most withered away, leaving behind ruins that have fascinated so many who came after. Based on the most recent historical and archaeological evidence, The Life and Death of Ancient Cities provides a sweeping narrative of one of the world's first great urban experiments, from Bronze Age origins to the demise of cities in late antiquity. Greg Woolf chronicles the history of the ancient Mediterranean city, against the background of wider patterns of human evolution, and of the unforgiving environment in which they were built. Richly illustrated, the book vividly brings to life the abandoned remains of our ancient urban ancestors and serves as a stark reminder of the fragility of even the mightiest of cities.

Author : Jill Leslie McKeever Furst
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0300072600

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The Natural History of the Soul in Ancient Mexico by Jill Leslie McKeever Furst Pdf

A richly illustrated look at basic Precolumbian beliefs among ancient Mesoamerican peoples about life and death, body and soul. Drawing on linguistic, ethnographic, and iconographic sources, art historian Jill McKeever Furst argues that the Mexica turned not to mental or linguistic constructions for verifying ideas about the soul, but to what they experienced through the senses. 32 illustrations.

Author : Nessa Carey
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780231530712

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The Epigenetics Revolution by Nessa Carey Pdf

Epigenetics can potentially revolutionize our understanding of the structure and behavior of biological life on Earth. It explains why mapping an organism's genetic code is not enough to determine how it develops or acts and shows how nurture combines with nature to engineer biological diversity. Surveying the twenty-year history of the field while also highlighting its latest findings and innovations, this volume provides a readily understandable introduction to the foundations of epigenetics. Nessa Carey, a leading epigenetics researcher, connects the field's arguments to such diverse phenomena as how ants and queen bees control their colonies; why tortoiseshell cats are always female; why some plants need cold weather before they can flower; and how our bodies age and develop disease. Reaching beyond biology, epigenetics now informs work on drug addiction, the long-term effects of famine, and the physical and psychological consequences of childhood trauma. Carey concludes with a discussion of the future directions for this research and its ability to improve human health and well-being.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780744055870

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Natural History by DK Pdf

A monumental and beautiful guide to Earth's wildlife and natural history--its rocks, minerals, animals, plants, fungi, and microorganisms--this landmark of reference publishing has been extended and updated. In the 11 years since this book was released, thousands of new species have been identified, and new revelations have redrawn the tree of life. Already featuring galleries of more than 5,000 species, The Natural History Book now includes discoveries such as the olinguito (the "kitty bear" of the Andean cloud forest) and the painted mannakin of Peru. It takes advantage of the first living observations of the giant squid and the deep-sea anglerfish. And it has reorganized the groups of living things to reflect the latest scientific understanding. All this ensures that this, the only ebook to offer a complete visual survey of all kingdoms of life, remains the benchmark of illustrated natural history references. Written by a worldwide team of natural history experts, The Natural History Book is the perfect addition to every family bookshelf, as well as an ideal gift for any nature lover. From granites to grapevines, from microbes to mammals, The Natural History Book is the ultimate celebration of the diversity of the natural world.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191518355

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The Elder Pliny on the Human Animal by Anonim Pdf

As a detailed study of the human animal, described by its author as the raison d'etre of nature, Book Seven of the elder Pliny's Natural History is crucial to the understanding of the work as a whole. In addition, however, it provides a valuable insight into the extraordinary complex of ideas and beliefs current in Pliny's era, many of which have resonances for other eras and cultures. The present study includes a substantial introduction examining the background to Pliny's life, thought, and writing, together with a modern English translation, and a detailed commentary which emphasizes the importance of Book Seven as possibly the most fascinating cultural record surviving from early imperial Rome.

Author : Pliny the Elder
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 618 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780141913322

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Natural History by Pliny the Elder Pdf

Pliny's Natural History is an astonishingly ambitious work that ranges from astronomy to art and from geography to zoology. Mingling acute observation with often wild speculation, it offers a fascinating view of the world as it was understood in the first century AD, whether describing the danger of diving for sponges, the first water-clock, or the use of asses' milk to remove wrinkles. Pliny himself died while investigating the volcanic eruption that destroyed Pompeii in AD 79, and the natural curiosity that brought about his death is also very much evident in the Natural History - a book that proved highly influential right up until the Renaissance and that his nephew, Pliny the younger, described 'as full of variety as nature itself'.

Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Science
ISBN : PRNC:32101064225715

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The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny (the Elder.) Pdf

Author : Chris Maser
Publisher : Sierra Club Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-01
Category : Nature
ISBN : 087156548X

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Forest Primeval by Chris Maser Pdf

This unique 'biography' encompasses a thousand years of the natural history and evolution of an old-growth forest in the western Cascade Mountains of Oregon. Called an "estimable piece of work" by the Boston Globe, Forest Primeval traces the life cycle of a forest from its fiery inception in the year 987 to the present day, when logging threatens the forest and its inhabitants.

Author : Cyril Courrier,Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000450026

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Ancient History from Below by Cyril Courrier,Julio Cesar Magalhães de Oliveira Pdf

If ancient history is particularly susceptible to a top-down approach, due to the nature of our evidence and its traditional exploitation by modern scholars, another ancient history—‘from below’—is actually possible. This volume examines the possibilities and challenges involved in writing it. Despite undeniable advances in recent decades, ‘our slowness to reconstruct plausible visions of almost any aspect of society beyond the top-most strata of wealth, power or status’ (as Nicholas Purcell has put it) remains a persistent feature of the field. Therefore, this book concerns a historical field and social groups that are still today neglected by modern scholarship. However, writing ancient history ‘from below’ means much more than taking into account the anonymous masses, the subaltern classes and the non-elites. Our task is also, in the felicitous expression coined by Walter Benjamin, ‘to brush history against the grain,’ to rescue the viewpoint of the subordinated, the traditions of the oppressed. In other words, we should understand the bulk of ancient populations in light of their own experience and their own reactions to that experience. But, how do we do such a history? What sources can we use? What methods and approaches can we employ? What concepts are required to this endeavour? The contributions mainly engage with questions of theory and methodology, but they also constitute inspiring case studies in their own right, ranging from classical Greece to the late antique world. This book is aimed not only at readers working on classical Greece, republican and imperial Rome and late antiquity but at anyone interested in ‘bottom-up’ history and social and population history in general. Although the book is primarily intended for scholars, it will also appeal to graduate and undergraduate students of history, archaeology and classical studies.

Author : Pliny (the Elder.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1855
Category : Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4036480

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The Natural History of Pliny by Pliny (the Elder.) Pdf

Author : John George Wood
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 886 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Ethnology
ISBN : PRNC:32101045604491

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The Natural History of Man: Australia. New Zealand, Polynesia, America, Asia, and ancient Europe by John George Wood Pdf