Science and Mathematics in Ancient Greek Culture
2005; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 98; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês
10.2307/4352940
ISSN1558-9234
AutoresMary Knight, Christopher Tuplin, T. E. Rihll,
Tópico(s)Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies
ResumoForeword 1. Introduction: Greek Science in context 2. Words for sounds 3. Ptolemy's maps as an introduction to ancient science 4. Seismology and vulcanology in antiquity 5. The art of the commander and the emergence of predictive astronomy 6. Euctemon's parapegma 7. Instruments of Alexandrian astronomy: the uses of the equinoctial rings 8. The Dioptra of Heron of Alexandria 9. The machine and the city: hero of Alexandria's Belopoecia 10. Ancient atomism: promise and failure 11. Greek mathematicians: a group picture 12. Aristotle and mathematics 13. Euclid's Elements 9.14 and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic 14. Ancient medicine: Asclepius transformed 15. Galen on the seat of the intellect: anatomical experiment and philosophical tradition 16. Practice makes perfect: processing materials in classical Athens 17. Distilling, sublimation, and the four elements: the aims and achievements of the earliest Greek chemists
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