Science in Antiquity |
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PREFACE TO SECOND IMPRESSION | 7 |
EARLY GREEK SCIENCE | 33 |
EARLY GREEK SCIENCE PART II | 51 |
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Academy achievement advance Alexandria Anaxagoras Anaximander Ancient Medicine animals antiquity Archimedes argument Aristarchus Aristotle astronomical Athens atoms attempt basis calendar centre century B.C. circle civilization conception cosmology culture Democritus discovery divine doctrine earth eclipses Egypt Egyptians and Babylonians elements Empedocles endeavour enquiry Erasistratus Euclid Eudoxus existence experience famous fifth century final cause fire geometry Greek science Greek thought heaven heavenly bodies Heraclitus Herodotus Hipparchus Hippocratic human idea Iliad importance invented Ionian school Ionian science later Leucippus logic Lucretius Lyceum material mathematics matter ment method Miletus mind modern motion natural philosophy nature observation organs Parmenides phenomena philosophers physical planets Plato Plutarch practical problem produced proof Ptolemy Pythagorean reason Roman scientific scientist seems sense Socrates soul speculation sphere stars substance sun and moon teaching teleology Thales theory things thinkers tion tradition treatise true truth universe writings