Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture,9780198152484

Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture

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ISBN13: 9780198152484
ISBN10: 0198152485
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-11-28
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Ancient Greece was the birthplace of science, which developed in the Hellenized culture of ancient Rome. This book, written by seventeen international experts, examines the role and achievement of science and mathematics in Greek antiquity through discussion of the linguistic, literary, political, religious, sociological, and technological factors which influenced scientific thought and practice.

Author Biography


C. J. Tuplin is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Liverpool T. E. Rihll is Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wales, Swansea

Table of Contents

Foreword ix
Lewis Wolpert
List of Illustrations
xiii
List of Tables
xiv
Abbreviations xv
Introduction: Greek Science in Context
1(21)
T. E. Rihll
Words for Sounds
22(14)
Andrew Barker
Ptolemy's Maps as an Introduction to Ancient Science
36(20)
J. L. Berggren
Seismology and Vulcanology in Antiquity?
56(20)
Harry M. Hine
The Art of the Commander and the Emergence of Predictive Astronomy
76(36)
Alan C. Bowen
Euctemon's Parapegma
112(21)
R. Hannah
Instruments of Alexandrian Astronomy: The Uses of the Equinoctial Rings
133(17)
L. Taub
The Dioptra of Hero of Alexandria
150(15)
J. J. Coulton
The Machine and the City: Hero of Alexandria's Belopoeica
165(13)
S. Cuomo
The Limitations of Ancient Atomism
178(18)
J. R. Milton
Greek Mathematicians: A Group Picture
196(21)
R. Netz
Aristotle and Mathematics
217(13)
Edward Hussey
Euclid's Elements 9. 14 and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
230(12)
C. M. Taisbak
Ancient Medicine: Asclepius Transformed
242(14)
V. Nutton
Galen on the Seat of the Intellect: Anatomical Experiment and Philosophical Tradition
256(18)
Teun Tieleman
Practice Makes Perfect: Knowledge of Materials in Classical Athens
274(32)
T. E. Rihll
J. V. Tucker
Distilling, Sublimation, and the Four Elements: The Aims and Achievements of the Earliest Greek Chemists
306(17)
C. Anne Wilson
Notes on Contributors 323(3)
Bibliography 326(24)
Index Locorum 350(16)
General Index 366

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