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  • The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science

    Edited by Liba Taub ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient Greek mathematical texts, while several chapters confront key questions in the ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Ancient Greek and Roman Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Liba Taub ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Ancient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supernatural causes. The early natural philosophers - lovers of wisdom concerning nature - sought to explain the order and composition of the world, and how we come to know it. They were particularly ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Cambridge History of Science: Volume 1, Ancient Science

    Edited by Alexander Jones, Liba Taub ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Science
    This volume in the highly respected Cambridge History of Science series is devoted to the history of science, medicine and mathematics of the Old World in antiquity. Organized by topic and culture, its essays by distinguished scholars offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date history of ancient science currently available. Together, they reveal the diversity of goals, contexts, and ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity

    by Liba Taub ...
    Series series Key Themes in Ancient History
    We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly through those texts which happen to survive. By concentrating only on the ideas conveyed, we may limit our understanding of the meaning of those ideas in their historical context. Through considering the diverse ways in which scientific ideas were communicated, in different types of texts, we can uncover otherwise hidden meanings and more fully ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • The Whipple Museum of the History of Science

    Objects and Investigations, to Celebrate the 75th Anniversary of R. S. Whipple's Gift to the University of Cambridge

    Edited by Joshua Nall, Liba Taub, Frances Willmoth ...
    In this book the diverse objects of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science's internationally renowned collection are brought into sharp relief by a number of highly regarded historians of science in fourteen essays. Each chapter focuses on a specific instrument or group of objects, ranging from an English medieval astrolabe to a modern agricultural 'seed source indicator' to a curious ... Read more

    $124.69 USD

  • Ancient Meteorology

    by Liba Taub ...
    Series series Sciences of Antiquity
    The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical or seismological.The range and diversity of this literature highlights the question of scholarly ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Stoicism

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Brad Inwood ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Stoicism is two things: a long past philosophical school of ancient Greece and Rome, and an enduring philosophical movement that still inspires people in the twenty-first century to re-think and re-organize their lives in order to achieve personal satisfaction. What is the connection between them? This Very Short Introduction provides an introductory account of Stoic philosophy, and tells the ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • The Cambridge Companion to the Stoics

    Edited by Brad Inwood ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This unique volume offers an odyssey through the ideas of the Stoics in three particular ways: first, through the historical trajectory of the school itself and its influence; second, through the recovery of the history of Stoic thought; third, through the ongoing confrontation with Stoicism, showing how it refines philosophical traditions, challenges the imagination, and ultimately defines the ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Pythagoras

    His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe

    by Kitty Ferguson ...
    This is the story of Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans, whose insights transformed the ancient world and still inspire the realms of science, mathematics, philosophy and the arts. Einstein said that the most incredible thing about our universe was that it was comprehensible at all. As Kitty Ferguson explains, Pythagoras had much the same idea - but 2,500 years earlier. Though known by many only for ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy

    Edited by David Sedley ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Philosophy is a wide-ranging 2003 introduction to the study of philosophy in the ancient world. A team of leading specialists surveys the developments of the period and evaluates a comprehensive series of major thinkers, ranging from Pythagoras to Epicurus. There are also separate chapters on how philosophy in the ancient world interacted with religion, ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Cambridge Companion to Epicureanism

    Edited by James Warren ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
    This Companion presents both an introduction to the history of the ancient philosophical school of Epicureanism and also a critical account of the major areas of its philosophical interest. Chapters span the school's history from the early Hellenistic Garden to the Roman Empire and its later reception in the Early Modern period, introducing the reader to the Epicureans' contributions in physics, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Cracking Philosophy

    by Martin Cohen ...
    This guide covers the main schools of thought from the Ancient Chinese philosophies of Confucius and Lao Tzu, Ancient wisdom from Aristotle, Plato, Zeno and Pythagoras through to those most influential of philosophers studied the world over - Hegel, Marx, Descartes, Kant, Kierkegaard and Wittgenstein to name but a few. It also discusses the big questions such as 'What is truth?', the relationship ... Read more

    $3.99 USD