Ancient Science through the Golden Age of Greece

by: Sarton, G.

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Ancient science through the golden age of Greece

Author:George Sarton

Summary:Examines the origins and development of mathematics, astronomy, and other sciences from prehistory through the fourth century B.C., taking special note of the achievements of Greece

Series:
Dover classics of science and mathematics

xxvi, 646 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.

Contents:
Part One Oriental And Greek Origins
I The Dawn Of Science
EARLY TECHNICAL PROBLEMS
PREHISTORIC TRAVEL AND TRADE
PREHISTORIC MEDICINE
PREHISTORIC MATHEMATICS
PREHISTORIC ASTRONOMY
PURE SCIENCES
DIFFUSION AND CONVERGENCE
Ii Egypt
THE INVENTION OF WRITING
THE INVENTION OF PAPYRUS
ASTRONOMY
ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING
MATHEMATICS
TECHNOLOGY
METALLURGY AND MINING
"EGYPTIAN "SCIENCE"
ART AND LITERATURE
THE DAWN OF CONSCIENCE
Iii Mesopotamia
GEOGRAPHIC AND HISTORICAL BACKGROUND
INVENTION OF WRITING
ARCHIVES AND SCHOOLS
THE BIRTH OF PHILOLOGY
BABYLONIAN SCIENCE
MATHEMATICS
ASTRONOMY
TECHNOLOGY
GEOGRAPHY
NATURAL HISTORY
THE CODE OF HAMMURABI
MEDICINE
HUMANITIES
Iv Dark Interlude
THE AEGEAN AREA
THE AEGEAN CULTURE
THE EARLY GREEK AND PHOENICIAN COLONIES. INVENTION OF THE ALPHABET
THE CONTINUITY OF ORIENTAL INFLUENCES
MATHEMATICAL TRADITIONS:
Egyptian arithmetic
Minoan arithmetic
Egyptian geometry
Babylonian mathematics
ASTRONOMIC TRADITIONS
BIOLOGIC AND MEDICAL TRADITIONS
TECHNICAL TRADITIONS
MYTHOLOGY
THE DARKEST HOUR BEFORE THE DAWN
V The Dawn Of Greek Culture. Homer And Hesiod
THE GREEK MIRACLE
THE Iliad
MINSTRELS AND RHAPSODISTS
HOMER?
MORE ABOUT THE Iliad
THE Odyssey. HOMER II
EARLY HOMERIC TRADITIONS
WHAT DID HOMER TEACH?
GEOGRAPHY
MEDICINE
OTHER ARTS AND CRAFTS
"HOMER, THE FIRST EDUCATOR OF THE WESTERN WORLD"
FÉNELON
LEGENDS
WOLF AND SCHLIEMANN
HESIOD
Works and days
Descent of the gods
HESIOD II
HESIODIC STYLE AND TRADITION
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTES:
Homer
Hesiod
Vi Assyrian Intermezzo
Vii Ionian Science In The Sixth Century
THE ASIATIC CRADLE OF GREEK SCIENCE
"ASIA, THE HOME OF PROPHETS"
MILETOS
THE SEVEN WISE MEN
THALES OF MILETOS
ANAXIMANDROS OF MILETOS
ANAXIMENES OF MILETOS
CLEOSTRATOS OF TENEDOS
XENOPHANES OF COLOPHON
EGYPTIAN INTERLUDE
"NECHO, KING OF EGYPT "
"HECATAIOS OF MILETOS, THE FATHER OF GEOGRAPHY"
GREEK TECHNICIANS OF THE SIXTH CENTURY
CADMOS OF MILETOS
THE RELIGIOUS BACKGROUND AND THE SUPERSTITIOUS UNDERGROUND
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Viii Pythagoras
WHO WAS PYTHAGORAS?
THE PYTHAGOREAN BROTHERHOOD AND THE EARLY PYTHAGOREAN DOCTRINES
ARITHMETIC
GEOMETRY
ASTRONOMY
MUSIC AND ARITHMETIC
MEDICINE
ALCMAION AND DEMOCEDES
NUMBERS AND WISDOM
THE PURSUIT OF KNOWLEDGE IS THE GREATEST PURIFICATION
Part Two The Fifth Century
Ix Greece Against Persia. The Glory Of Athens
THE PERSIAN WARS
FIFTY YEARS OF RELATIVE PEACE
LYRIC POETRY
THE ARTS
TRAGEDY
COMEDY
THE FIFTH CENTURY ITSELF A TRAGEDY
THE DANGER OF COMPARING THE PAST WITH THE PRESENT
X Philosophy And Science To The Death Of Socrates
HERACLEITOS OF EPHESOS
ANAXAGORAS OF CLAZOMENAE
THE ELEACTIC SCHOOL. PARMENIDES AND ZENON OF ELEA
MELISSOS OF SAMOS
EMPEDOCLES OF AGRIGENTUM
THE ATOMISTS
LEUCIPPOS AND DEMOCRITOS
THE SOPHISTS
"PROTAGORAS OF ABDERA, GORGIAS OF LEONTINI, AND ANTIPHON OF RHAMNOS"
Protagoras of Abdera
Gorgias of Leontini
Antiphon of Rhamnos
SOCRATES OF ATHENS
THE BOOK OF JOB
Xi "Mathematics, Astronomy, And Technology In The Fifth Century"
MATHEMATICS
ZENON OF ELEA
DEMOCRITOS OF ABDERA
HIPPOCRATES OF CHIOS
OINOPIDES OF CHIOS
HIPPIAS OF ELIS
THE ODOROS OF CYRENE
ANTIPHON THE SOPHIST
BRYSON OF HERACLEA
ASTRONOMY
PARMENIDES OF ELEA
PHILOLAOS OF CROTON
HICETAS OF SYRACUSE
ECPHANTOS OF SYRACUSE
THE ASTRONOMIC VIEWS OF LEUCIPPOS AND DEMOCRITOS
OINOPIDES OF CHIOS
METON AND EUCTEMON
TECHNOLOGY AND ENGINEERING
ARTACHAIES THE PERSIAN
AGATHARCHOS OF SAMOS
HIPPODAMOS OF MILETOS
THE SILVER MINES OF LAURION
Xii Geographers And Historians Of The Fifth Century
GEOGRAPHY
SCYLAX OF CARYANDA
SATASPES THE ACHAIMENIAN
HANON OF CARTHAGE
HIMILCON OF CARTHAGE
"THE HISTORIANS: HERODOTOS, THUCYDIDES, AND CTESIAS"
HERODOTOS OF HALICARNASSOS
THUCYDIDES OF ATHENS: The plague of Athens
HERODOTOS AND THUCYDIDES
CTESIAS OF CNIDOS
Xiii "Greek Medicine Of The Fifth Century, Chiefly Hippocratic"
FROM HOMER TO HIPPOCRATES
THE SCHOOL OF CNIDOS
THE SCHOOL OF COS
HIPPOCRATES OF COS
HIPPOCRATIC MEDICINE:
1. Anatomy and physiology
2. Prognosis versus diagnosis
3. What diseases did the Hippocratic physicians know?
4. Hygiene and therapeutics
5. Medical climatology
6. Scientific aspects of Hippocratism
7. Psychologic healing
THE HIPPOCRATIC ACHIEVEMENTS
THE ASCLEPIADAI
Xiv The Hippocratic Corpus
COMPLETE OR PARTIAL GENUINENESS OF THE HIPPOCRATIC WRITINGS
EARLY COMMENTARIES: Printed editions
MAIN MEDICAL WRITINGS
1. "The sacred disease, De morbo sacro, Peri hieres nosu"
2. "Prognostic, Prognostica sive praenotiones, Prognosticon"
3. "Regimen in acute diseases, De di
29. "Percepts, Praecepta, Parangeliai"
LETTERS
30. APOCHRYPHAL LETTERS
"THE MEDIEVAL TRADITION OF HIPPOCRATES: Second half of the twelfth century, First half of the thirteenth century, Second half of the thirteenth century, First half of the fourteenth century, Second half of the fourteenth century"
Xv Coan Archaeology
Part Three The Fourth Century
Xvi Plato And The Academy
POLITICAL BACKGROUND
SCOPAS AND PRAXITELES
PLATO'S LIFE
THE ACADEMY (387 B.C. TO A.D. 529)
LATER HISTORY OF THE ACADEMY (348 B.C. TO A.D. 529)
ORIENTAL INFLUENCES
THE THEORY OF IDEAS
&nbsp PLATOS WRITINGS
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY
PLATO'S WORKS AND THEIR CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER
POLITICS
THE GREAT BETRAYAL
PLATO'S POLITICAL PROBLEM
LEADERSHIP
POLITICS AND MATHEMATICS
NEITHER FREEDOM NOR TRUTH IN THE REPUBLIC
PLATO'S RELIGION
PLATO'S LACK OF HUMANITY
THE Timaios
PLATONIC LOVE
CONCLUSION
A NOTE ON THE ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL TRADITION OF THE Timaios
Xvii Mathema

Ancient Science through the Golden Age of Greece

by: Sarton, G.

• ISBN-13: 9780486274959 / 978-0-486-27495-9
• ISBN-03: 0486274950 / 0-486-27495-0
• Dover Publications, New York, 1980

Price: 49,00 EURO

1 copy in stock