Methods and problems in Greek science: selected papers

by: Lloyd, G.E.R.

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 Methods and problems in Greek science

Author:G. E. R. Lloyd

Summary:This collection of articles on Greek science contains fifteen of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd in this area since 1961. The topics range over all areas and periods of Greek science, from the earliest Presocratic philosophers to Ptolemy and Galen.

Contents:
The development of Aristotle's theory of the classification of animals
Right and left in Greek philosophy
Who is attacked in On Ancient Medicine?
Experiment in early Greek philosophy and medicine
Popper versus Kirk: a controversy in the interpretation of Greek science
The social background of early Greek philosophy and science
Greek cosmologies
Alcmaeon and the early history of dissection
The Hippocratic question
The empirical basis of the physiology of the Parva Naturalia
Saving the appearances
The debt of Greek philosophy and science to the ancient Near East
Observational error in later Greek science
Plato on mathematics and nature, myth and science
Science and morality in Greco-Roman antiquity
Aristotle's zoology and his metaphysics: the status quaestionis: a critical review of some recent theories
Galen on Hellenistics and Hippocrateans
The invention of nature

xiv, 457 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Methods and problems in Greek science: selected papers

by: Lloyd, G.E.R.

• ISBN-13: 9780521374194 / 978-0-521-37419-4
• ISBN-03: 0521374197 / 0-521-37419-7
• Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1991

Price: 65,00 EURO

1 copy in stock