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  • Recovering a Late-Antique Edition of Pliny’s Natural History"

    by Paul T. Keyser ...
    Half a dozen authors quote a total of over forty extracts from Pliny’s Natural History that are absent from our manuscripts of Pliny. These extracts have been virtually ignored by scholars, and never studied systematically. This book demonstrates that the half-dozen sources, Latin writers of the fifth to thirteenth centuries CE, are reliable, and argues that their extracts should be received as ... Read more

    $93.69 USD

  • Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era

    A Sourcebook

    by Georgia L. Irby-Massie, Paul T. Keyser ...
    Series series Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World
    We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought and writings laid the essential foundations for the revivals of science in medieval Baghdad and renaissance Europe. Now their work is accessible to all, with this invaluable introduction to c.100 scientific authors active from 320 BCE to 230 ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists

    The Greek Tradition and its Many Heirs

    Edited by Paul T. Keyser, Georgia L. Irby-Massie ...
    The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to provide a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including entries which are not mentioned in any other reference work – resulting in a unique and hugely ... Read more

    $94.99 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World

    Edited by Paul Keyser, with John Scarborough ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    With a focus on science in the ancient societies of Greece and Rome, including glimpses into Egypt, Mesopotamia, India and China, The Oxford Handbook of Science and Medicine in the Classical World offers an in depth synthesis of science and medicine circa 650 BCE to 650 CE. The Handbook comprises five sections, each with a specific focus on ancient science and medicine. The second section covers ... Read more

    $52.19 USD

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  • 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

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A History of Science — Volume 1

    by Henry Smith Williams, Edward Huntington Williams ...
    Should the story that is about to be unfolded be found to lack interest, the writers must stand convicted of unpardonable lack of art. Nothing but dulness in the telling could mar the story, for in itself it is the record of the growth of those ideas that have made our race and its civilization what they are; of ideas instinct with human interest, vital with meaning for our race; fundamental in ... Read more

    $2.99 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

    $60.99 USD

  • The Forgotten Revolution

    How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn

    by Lucio Russo, Silvio (translator) Levy ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The period from the late fourth to the late second century B. C. witnessed, in Greek-speaking countries, an explosion of objective knowledge about the external world. WhileGreek culture had reached great heights in art, literature and philosophyalreadyin the earlier classical era, it is in the so-called Hellenistic period that we see for the ?rst time — anywhere in the world — the appearance of ... Read more

    $161.09 USD

  • Thales of Miletus

    The Beginnings of Western Science and Philosophy

    by Patricia F. O'Grady ...
    Series series Western Philosophy Series
    'What is the basic building block of the universe?' Thales of Miletus was the first to ask this fundamental, yet to be answered, question in the sixth century B.C. This book offers an in-depth account of the answers he gave and of his adventure into many areas of learning: philosophy, science, mathematics and astronomy. Thales proved that the events of nature were comprehensible to man and could ... Read more

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  • A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome

    Edited by Georgia L. Irby ...
    Series series Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
    A Companion to Science, Technology, and Medicine in Ancient Greece and Rome brings a fresh perspective to the study of these disciplines in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a variety of critical and technical perspectives.Brings a fresh perspective to the study of science, technology, and medicine in the ancient world, with 60 chapters examining these topics from a ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • A Short History of Science to the Nineteenth Century

    by Charles Singer ...
    This early work on scientific history is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains details of the developments and pivotal moments in science from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth century. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of science. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Time in Antiquity

    by Robert Hannah ...
    Series series Sciences of Antiquity
    Time in Antiquity offers a detailed survey of the science of time and its measurement in the Greek and Roman worlds, including Babylon and Egypt where many of the first advances were made. Robert Hannah focuses on the physical aspects of time measurement, locating the means of measurement, and the astronomers who developed these mechanisms, within their scientific context for the first time. This ... Read more

    $57.99 USD