The Frontiers Of Ancient Science

Author : Brooke Holmes,Klaus-Dietrich Fischer
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9783110336337

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The Frontiers of Ancient Science by Brooke Holmes,Klaus-Dietrich Fischer Pdf

Our understanding of science, mathematics, and medicine today can be deeply enriched by studying the historical roots of these areas of inquiry in the ancient Near East and Mediterranean. The fields of ancient science and mathematics have in recent years witnessed remarkable growth. The present volume brings together contributions from more than thirty of the most important scholars working in these fields in the United States and Europe in honor of the eminent historian of ancient science and medicine Heinrich von Staden, Professor Emeritus of Classics and History of Science at the Institute of Advanced Study and William Lampson Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at Yale University. The papers range widely from Mesopotamia to Ancient Greece and Rome, from the first millennium B.C. to the early medieval period, and from mathematics to philosophy, mechanics to medicine, representing both a wide diversity of national traditions and the cutting edge of the international scholarly community.

Author : Stanislav Grof,Marjorie Livingston Valier
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1984-06-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0873958497

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Ancient Wisdom and Modern Science by Stanislav Grof,Marjorie Livingston Valier Pdf

A critical revaluation of ancient spiritual systems long ignored or rejected because of their assumed incompatibility with science. Here are Swami Muktananda on the mind, Swami Prajnananda on Karma, Swami Kripananda on the Kundalini, Joseph Chilton Pearce on spiritual development, Jack Kornfield on Buddhism for Americans, Claudio Naranjo on meditation, and much more.

Author : George Sarton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Science
ISBN : OCLC:237113924

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A History of Science by George Sarton Pdf

Author : Charlie Samuels
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781433949081

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Ancient Science (Prehistory – A.D. 500) by Charlie Samuels Pdf

There is an incredible timeline of scientific development that occurred before we could record our history. Walled communities, calendars to track time, early irrigation systems, and domestication of animals all occurred in prehistory. Readers will be taken on a journey of scientific discovery of very ancient times—learning that a great deal of our lasting technologies stem from a not-so-primitive past. Sidebars and timelines support the main narrative.

Author : Marco Formisano,Philip van der Eijk,Philip J. Eijk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-04-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107169432

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Knowledge, Text and Practice in Ancient Technical Writing by Marco Formisano,Philip van der Eijk,Philip J. Eijk Pdf

This book explores the relationship between theory and practice in ancient Greek and Roman scientific and technical texts.

Author : Ann Hosein
Publisher : Encyclopaedia Britannica
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781508100386

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Technology of the Ancient World by Ann Hosein Pdf

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 : Giouli Korobili
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030999667

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Aristotle. On Youth and Old Age, Life and Death, and Respiration 1-6 by Giouli Korobili Pdf

This book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle’s collection of short treatises known today as the Parva Naturalia, i.e. the treatise On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration. In the three main sections of the book, the author offers a translation, a commentary and a thorough analysis of this work. The author argues in favour of the unity of the work and contextualises its ideas within Aristotle’s corpus and the medical tradition of his time. After an Introduction to the nature of the work and its significance for the history of natural philosophy and science, a new English translation follows, along with a detailed commentary of Chapters 1-6, which combines philosophical discussion with philological observations. The book includes four interpretive essays, which tackle problems related to the whole treatise on a more philosophical basis, including questions about the structure and unity of the work, the organisation of the material, Aristotle’s methodological principles, his aims and target audience as well as the relevance of his selected themes to the thematic agenda of some Hippocratic writings. This book is of interest to students and researchers in Aristotle’s psychophysiology, and his views about the embodied mind, as well as to anyone concerned with the history of natural philosophy and science more generally.

Author : C. Jay Crisostomo,Eduardo A. Escobar,Terri Tanaka,Niek Veldhuis
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004363380

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"The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts" by C. Jay Crisostomo,Eduardo A. Escobar,Terri Tanaka,Niek Veldhuis Pdf

Francesca Rochberg has for more than thirty-five years been a leading figure in the study of ancient science. “The Scaffolding of Our Thoughts” honors this luminary with twenty essays, each reflecting on aspects of her work.

Author : Alex Purves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317516668

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Touch and the Ancient Senses by Alex Purves Pdf

Unlike the other senses, touch ranges beyond a single sense organ, encompassing not only the skin but also the interior of the body. It mediates almost every aspect of interpersonal relations in antiquity, from the everyday to the erotic, just as it also provides a primary point of contact between the individual and the outside world. The essays in this volume explore the ways in which touch plays a defining role in science, art, philosophy, and medicine, and shapes our understanding of topics ranging from aesthetics and poetics to various religious and ritual practices. Whether we locate the sense of touch on the surface of the skin, within the body or – less tangibly still – within the emotions, the sensory impact of touching raises a broad range of interpretive and phenomenological questions. This is the first volume of its kind to explore the sense of touch in antiquity, bringing a variety of disciplinary approaches to bear on the sense that is usually disregarded as the most base and obvious of the five. In these pages, by contrast, we find in touch a complex and fascinating indicator of the body’s relation to object, environment, and self.

Author : Arnaud Zucker,Robert Mayhew,Oliver Hellmann
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781003850229

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The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science by Arnaud Zucker,Robert Mayhew,Oliver Hellmann Pdf

This is the first volume devoted to the sections of the Aristotelian Mirabilia on natural science, filling a significant gap in the history of the Aristotelian study of nature and especially of animals. The chapters in this volume explore the Mirabilia, or De mirabilibus auscultationibus (On Marvelous Things Heard), and its engagement with the natural sciences. The first two chapters deliver an introduction to this work: one a discussion of the history of the text; the other a discussion of Aristotelian epistemology and methodology, and the role of the Mirabilia in that context. This is followed by eight chapters that, together, are effectively a commentary on those sections of the Mirabilia with close connections to Aristotle’s Historia animalium and to a number of Theophrastus’ scientific treatises. Finally, the volume ends with two chapters on thematic topics connected to natural science running throughout the work, namely color and disease. The Aristotelian Mirabilia and Early Peripatetic Natural Science should prove invaluable to scholars and students interested in the ancient Greek study of nature, ancient philosophy, and Aristotelian science in particular.

Author : Andrew N. Sherwood,Milorad Nikolic,John W. Humphrey,John P. Oleson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 840 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317402404

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Greek and Roman Technology by Andrew N. Sherwood,Milorad Nikolic,John W. Humphrey,John P. Oleson Pdf

In this new edition of Greek and Roman Technology, the authors translate and annotate key passages from ancient texts to provide a history and analysis of the origins and development of technology in the classical world. Sherwood and Nikolic, with Humphrey and Oleson, provide a comprehensive and accessible collection of rich and varied sources to illustrate and elucidate the beginnings of technology. Among the topics covered are energy, basic mechanical devices, hydraulic engineering, household industry, medicine and health, transport and trade, and military technology. This fully revised Sourcebook collects more than 1,300 passages from over 200 ancient sources and a diverse range of literary genres, such as the encyclopaedic Natural History of Pliny the Elder, the poetry of Homer and Hesiod, the philosophies of Plato, Aristotle, and Lucretius, the agricultural treatises of Varro, Columella, and Cato, the military texts of Philo of Byzantium and Aeneas Tacticus, as well as the medical texts of Galen, Celsus, and the Hippocratic Corpus. Almost 100 line drawings, indexes of authors and subjects, introductions outlining the general significance of the evidence, notes to explain the specific details, and current bibliographies are included. This new and revised edition of Greek and Roman Technology will remain an important and vital resource for students of technology in the ancient world, as well as those studying the impact of technological change on classical society.

Author : Alexander Jones,Liba Taub
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781108682626

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The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1, Ancient Science by Alexander Jones,Liba Taub Pdf

This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and mathematics of the Old World in antiquity. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient science currently available. Together, they reveal the diversity of goals, contexts, and accomplishments in the study of nature in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, China, and India. Intended to provide a balanced and inclusive treatment of the ancient world, contributors consider scientific, medical and mathematical learning in the cultures associated with the ancient world.

Author : John Jefferson Davis
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780830826643

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The Frontiers of Science & Faith by John Jefferson Davis Pdf

"What happens when new scientific research meets traditional Christian doctrines? How does the big bang theory fit with Genesis 1:1? What does quantum mechanics have to do with the doctrines of predestination and the omniscience of God? How does the anthropic principle square with a biblical notion of a designed and purposeful universe? What are the implications of the doctrine of redemption in Jesus Christ for the search for extraterrestrial intelligence?" "Addressing these and other questions, John Jefferson Davis brings together a well-informed understanding of current scientific issues with Christian teaching. He demonstrates that the meeting of the frontiers of science with the frontiers of faith calls for a proper relationship with the God of the universe and a humility that acknowledges the fundamental limits of human knowledge."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : George Sarton
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486144986

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Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece by George Sarton Pdf

Remarkably readable, thoroughly documented, and well illustrated, this fascinating book by an eminent science historian covers problems of mathematics, astronomy, physics, and biology.

Author : Andrea Falcon,David Lefebvre
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 307 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107132931

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Aristotle's Generation of Animals by Andrea Falcon,David Lefebvre Pdf

Historically and philosophically informed introduction to the embryological, zoological, and medical views presented in this sophisticated and challenging text.