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Author : Russell M. Lawson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2004-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781851095346
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Author : Russell M. Lawson
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 625 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781440873539
This work spans prehistory to 1500 CE, examining thousands of years of history in four world regions: Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas. Highlights of this period include the onset of civilization and science in Mesopotamia and Egypt, the accomplishments of the ancient Greeks between 700 BCE and 100 CE, the adaptation of Greek science by the Romans, the spread of Greek science during the Hellenistic Age, the expansion of Islamic power and commensurate scientific knowledge, and the development of science and philosophy in ancient China and India. Focusing on the history of the science that blossomed in the above regions, scientific disciplines covered include alchemy, astronomy, astrology, agriculture, architecture, biology, botany, chemistry, engineering, exploration, geography, hydraulics, institutions of science, marine science, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, military science, myth and religion, philosophy, philosophy of science, psychology, physics, and social sciences. In all of these fields, theory and application are explored, as are leading individuals and schools of thought, centers of intellectual activity, and notable accomplishments and inventions.
Author : Jay Wile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989042421
Author : Richard G. Olson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780313065231
Why did the Greeks excel in geometry, but lag begin the Mesopotamians in arithmetic? How were the great pyramids of Egypt and the Han tombs in China constructed? What did the complex system of canals and dykes in the Tigris and Euphrates river valley have to do with the deforestation of Lebanon's famed cedar forests? This work presents a cross-cultural comparison of the ways in which the ancients learned about and preserved their knowledge of the natural world, and the ways in which they developed technologies that enabled them to adapt to and shape their surroundings. Covering the major ancient civilizations - those of Mesopotamia, Egypt, China, Greece, the Indus Valley, and Meso-America - Olson explores how language and numbering systems influenced the social structure, how seemingly beneficial construction projects affected a civilization's rise or decline, how religion and magic shaped both medicine and agriculture, and how trade and the resulting cultural interactions transformed the making of both everyday household items and items intended as art. Along the way, Olson delves into how scientific knowledge and its technological applications changed the daily lives of the ancients.
Author : Russell M. Lawson
Publisher : Brief History
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1596292199
In this complex and dynamic history, Russell M. Lawson navigates the story of the Piscataqua Valley from Martin Pring in 1603, through the turbulent Indian wars of colonial days, around the volatile American Revolution and into the smooth sailing of the nineteenth-century shipbuilding industry. In Dover, Durham, Exeter and the entire valley, Piscataqua played a major role in the foundation of the United States, all the while surrounded by the river's natural splendor.
Author : Benjamin Farrington
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Politics, Practical
ISBN : WISC:89038452694
Author : Jay Wile
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0989042405
Science in the context of the seven days of creation presented in the Bible. This textbook uses activities to reinforce scientific principles presented.
Author : Robert E. Krebs,Carolyn A. Krebs
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2003-12-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780313016707
This reference work describes the trial-and-error experiments, discoveries, and inventions of early humans who lived from before recorded history to the Middle Ages. Krebs travels through the ancient periods of Egypt, China, and Mesoamerica, to the classical Greek and Roman periods, and finally to the Christian era, providing students with the link between science and history, while revealing information about many cultures around the world. Each entry provides the who, when, and where of each discovery, invention, or experiment. Entries include calendars, gunpowder, anesthesia, contraception, spontaneous generation, the Arctic Circle, language, and tides. Part of the Groundbreaking Experiments, Inventions, and Discoveries through the Ages series, this book provides readers with a detailed look early humans' relation to world around them and the scientific advancements they made. It will be useful to high school and college students, teachers, and the general public interested in the history and science behind ancient civilizations.
Author : Margaret J. Anderson,Karen F. Stephenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 110 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0766011119
This volume discusses the lives and contributions of ten influential scholars from the early years of scientific research, including Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Aristotle, Archimedes, Eratosthenes, Pliny, Galen, Ptolemy, Hypatia, and Al-Khwarizmi. Authors Margaret J. Anderson and Karen F. Stephenson also examine the lasting importance for the modern Western world of the mathematical, philosophical, mechanical, and scientific ideas of these ten great scientists.
Author : Ann Hosein
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508100386
Readers may not think of technology as being from the ancient world, but advances in agriculture, weaponry, art, and food preparation have influenced the development of both human history and the physical development of humans themselves, as well as human migration all over the world. Using photographs, this book thoroughly examines the earliest human technologies, including irrigation, metal work, and ancient artillery, to show readers just how technologically advanced ancient cultures were and to show how human history began to develop because of each of the advancements.
Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108423649
Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.
Author : Lukas de Blois,R.J. van der Spek
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134047918
Integrating the results of scholarly work from the past decade, the authors of An Introduction to the Ancient World, Lukas de Blois and R.J. van der Spek, have fully-updated and revised all sixteen chapters of this best-selling introductory textbook. Covering the history and culture of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome within the framework of a short narrative history of events, this book offers an easily readable, integrated overview for students of history, classics, archaeology and philosophy, whether at college, at undergraduate level or among the wider reading public. This revised second edition offers a new section on early Christianity and more specific information on the religions, economies, and societies of the ancient Near East. There is extended coverage of Greek, Macedonian and Near Eastern history of the fourth to second centuries BC and the history of the Late Roman Republic. The consequences of Julius Caesar’s violent death are covered in more detail, as are the history and society of Imperial Rome. This new edition is: comprehensive: covers 3,000 years of ancient history and provides the basis for a typical one-semester course lavishly illustrated: contains maps, line drawings and plates to support and supplement the text, with updated captions clearly and concisely written: two established and respected university teachers with thirty years' experience in the subject areas well-organized: traces the broad outline of political history but also concentrates on particular topics user-friendly: includes chapter menus, an extensive and expanded bibliography organized by subject area and three appendices, an improved introduction and the addition of an epilogue.
Author : Dorothy Mills
Publisher : Sophia Perennis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-12
Category : History
ISBN : 159731353X
The Book of the Ancient World is an account of our common heritage from the dawn of civilization to the coming of the Greeks. It is the story of how human beings began their great adventure of learning how to live; of how they have sought to satisfy the practical needs of their bodies, the questioning of their minds, and the searching of their spirits. To this end it subordinates details of political events to the record of things that lie at the foundation or our modern civilization. Dorothy Mills had an uncanny and unique ability to write history that is interesting and at the same time based on sound scholarship. Her direct, engaging approach is valued increasingly by the many parents in our day who are looking for reliable materials for home study, as well as by many private school educators. The highly-prized six volumes of her historical works (see below) have become very scarce on the used book market, and so Dawn Chorus has undertaken to reprint them as part of its effort to offer texts ideally suited to the needs of a new generation of teachers and students. In a world where the quality of education has so deteriorated, may the reissue of this wonderful historical series shine as a beacon to a new generation of young (and not so young) scholars . Dawn Chorus publishes these five other books by Dorothy Mills: The Book of the Ancient Greeks; The Book of the Ancient Romans; The People of Ancient Israel; The Middle Ages; and Renaissance and Reformation Times. Dawn Chorus has also republished another outstanding, and long-out-of-print historical series perfectly suited for home or school use (and highly recommended in home-school curricula), entitled The Picturesque Tale of Progress, by Olive Beaupre Miller. It is available in large format (9 volumes), or smaller, double-bound format (5 volumes).
Author : Georgia L. Irby
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1111 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781119100706
A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives. Brings a fresh perspective to the study of science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives Begins coverage in 600 BCE and includes sections on the later Roman Empire and beyond, featuring discussion of the transmission and reception of these ideas into the Renaissance Investigates key disciplines, concepts, and movements in ancient science, technology, and medicine within the historical, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Greek and Roman society Organizes its content in two halves: the first focuses on mathematical and natural sciences; the second focuses on cultural applications and interdisciplinary themes 2 Volumes
Author : Georgia L. Irby-Massie,Paul T. Keyser
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 44,9 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.