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Author : G. E. R. Lloyd
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521397626
A collection of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd on Greek science since 1961.
Author : Liba Taub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 359 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107092488
Provides a broad framework for engaging with ideas relevant to ancient Greek and Roman science, medicine and technology.
Author : G.E.R. Lloyd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000945362
From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be reprinted in this collection. They tackle a wide range of problems in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, focussing especially on science but including also medicine, mathematics, philosophy and mythology. Three common themes recur: the ancients' own concern with disciplinary boundaries, their engagement in polemics, and the heterogeneity of different traditions - cultivating different styles of reasoning with different results - in ancient science. Alongside papers that deal with technical issues in the interpretation of our sources, others raise strategic questions to do with the institutional framework of ancient science, the role of literacy in its development, and the underlying ontological and epistemological presuppositions of different groups of ancient investigators. The collection closes with a study in which Lloyd sets out how he sees the further comparative study of ancient science developing. Two of the articles appear here for the first time in English. The others are reprinted in their original form. Supplementary bibliographies are added referring to the most recent scholarship on the issues discussed.
Author : T. E. Rihll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-11-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199223955
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 : Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0872205282
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 : James Longrigg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781136782190
First Published in 1998. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Geoffrey Ernest Richard Lloyd
Publisher : Chatto & Windus
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:39015004719905
Although there is no exct equivalent to our term "science" in Greek, Western science may still be said to originate with the Greeks. In this volume, the author discusses the fundamental Greek contributions to science, drawing on the rich literary and archaeological sources for the period after Aristotle. Particular attention is paid to the Greeks' conceptions of the inquiries they were engaged on, and to the interrelations of science and philosophy, science and religion, and 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 : Georgia L. Irby-Massie,Paul T. Keyser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134556397
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 : Paula Olmos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781443838412
Greek traditions relating to both the arts and sciences of life and health and those regarding the systematic development of theories of measurement and quantification enjoyed an incredibly long reputation and showed a kind of versatility that challenges any simplistic, dogmatic or a priori viewpoint about the meaning and social function of systematic knowledge. In this sense, they allow us to focus on very specific traits of the multiple processes of production, textual arrangement and transmission of the sciences. Greek Science in the Long Run: Essays on the Greek Scientific Tradition (4th c. BCE–17th c. CE) offers a collection of essays in which renowned international experts in ancient, medieval and early modern history and culture and the history of science, together with young researchers in these same fields, reflect upon different aspects of this long-standing prominence of Greek models and traditions in the changing configuration of the sciences. The main aim of the volume is to revisit the different processes by which such doctrinal traditions originated, were transmitted and received within diverse socio-cultural contexts and frameworks. The specialized scholars and academics contributing to the volume embrace advanced standpoints regarding these issues and ensure a successful and substantial contribution to one of the lines of research that has recently attracted the most attention within the field of humanities: the interdisciplinary project of a historical epistemology seriously informed by an advanced history of epistemology or the sciences.
Author : Marshall Clagett
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786258571
In this volume I have attempted to give especial and marked attention to the fate of Greek science in late antiquity. Elementary texts in the past have long ignored this aspect of Greek science. The importance of the course of Greek science in late antiquity is evident, for it was during this period that much of the Greek scientific corpus was put into the form in which it passed to the medieval Latin West. We are justified, then, in considering this volume as an introduction to medieval and early modern science—that science being considered as a transformation of Greek science.
Author : Arne Hessenbruch
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 965 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134262946
The Reader's Guide to the History of Science looks at the literature of science in some 550 entries on individuals (Einstein), institutions and disciplines (Mathematics), general themes (Romantic Science) and central concepts (Paradigm and Fact). The history of science is construed widely to include the history of medicine and technology as is reflected in the range of disciplines from which the international team of 200 contributors are drawn.
Author : Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza,Shelly Matthews,Cynthia Briggs Kittredge,Melanie Johnson-DeBaufre
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 156338406X
World-renowned scholars honor Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza in this Festschrift.
Author : David Creese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521843249
Traces the history of the monochord from its earliest appearance to Claudius Ptolemy (mid-second century AD).
Author : Allan Gotthelf
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191629167
This volume presents an interconnected set of sixteen essays, four of which are previously unpublished, by Allan Gotthelf—one of the leading experts in the study of Aristotle's biological writings. Gotthelf addresses three main topics across Aristotle's three main biological treatises. Starting with his own ground-breaking study of Aristotle's natural teleology and its illuminating relationship with the Generation of Animals, Gotthelf proceeds to the axiomatic structure of biological explanation (and the first principles such explanation proceeds from) in the Parts of Animals. After an exploration of the implications of these two treatises for our understanding of Aristotle's metaphysics, Gotthelf examines important aspects of the method by which Aristotle organizes his data in the History of Animals to make possible such a systematic, explanatory study of animals, offering a new view of the place of classification in that enterprise. In a concluding section on 'Aristotle as Theoretical Biologist', Gotthelf explores the basis of Charles Darwin's great praise of Aristotle and, in the first printing of a lecture delivered worldwide, provides an overview of Aristotle as a philosophically-oriented scientist, and 'a proper verdict' on his greatness as scientist.
Author : John G. Dellis,Vassilis Kostopoulos
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781527536135
This book consists of 24 papers on ancient Greek science and technology. It covers such areas as mathematics, physics, engineering, astronomical methods and instruments, and environmental issues. A great variety of topics are discussed, including medical care in ancient Olympiads, mathematical concepts in Plato, the concept of the rate of change in various mathematical areas and the concept of symmetry in ancient Greece. Aristotle’s Physics on free falling bodies, world-structure formation and matter according to the Presocratics, acoustic phenomena in archaeological sites, Trojan Horse reconstruction, offensive and defensive weapons in Homer’s epics, and telecommunications in ancient Greece are also some of the issues addressed here. This book will be an important resource to physicists, mathematicians, engineers, archaeologists, historians, and philologists.
