A history of science /
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Harvard University Press,
1952-1959.
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Table of Contents:
- [Volume 1] Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece
- Part 1. Oriental and Greek origins
- 1. The dawn of science
- 2. Egypt
- 3. Mesopotamia
- 4. Dark interlude
- 5. The dawn of Greek culture. Home and Hesiod
- 6. Assyrian intermezzo
- 7. Ionian science in the sixth century
- 8. Pythagoras
- Part 2. The fifth century
- 9. Greece against Persia. The glory of Athens
- 10. Philosophy and science to the death of Socrates
- 11. Mathematics, astronomy, and technology in the fifth century
- 12. Geographers and historians of the fifth century
- 13. Greek medicine of the fifth century
- 14. The Hippocratuc corpus
- 15. Coan archaeology
- Part 3. The fourth century
- 16. Plato and the Academy
- 17. Mathematics and astronomy in Plato's time
- 18. Xenophon
- 19. Aristotle and Alexander. The Lyceum
- 20. Mathematics, astronomy, and physics in Aristotle's time
- 21. The natural sciences and medicine in Aristotle's time
- 22. Aristotelian humanities and historiography in the second half of the fourth century B.C.
- 23. Other theories of life and of knowledge. The garden and the porch
- 24. The end of a cycle.
- [Volume 2] Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.
- Part 1. The third century
- 1. The Alexandrian renaissance
- 2. The museum
- 3. Euclid of Alexandria
- 4. Astronomy. Aristarchos and Aratos
- 5. Archimēdēs and Apollōnios
- 6. Geography and chronology in the third century: Eratosthenēs of Cyrēnē
- 7. Physics and technology in the third century
- 8. Anatomy in the third century
- 9. Medicine in the third century
- 10. The library
- 11. Philosophy and religion in the third century
- 12. Knowledge of the past in the third century
- 13. Language, arts, and letters
- Part 2. The last two centuries
- 15. The social background
- 16. Religion in the last two centuries
- 17. Philosophy in the last two centuries. Poseidōnios, Cicero, and Lucretius
- 18. Mathematics in the last two centuries
- 19. Astronomy in the last two centuries. Hipparchos of Nicaia
- 20. Physics and technology in the last two centuries. Ctēsibios, Philōn of Byzanton, Vitruvius
- 21. Natural history (chiefly agriculture)
- 22. Medicine in the last two centuries
- 23. Geography in the last two centuries. Cratēs and Strabōn
- 24. Knowledge of the past in the last two centuries
- 25. Literature
- 26. Philology in the last two centuries
- 27. Art in the last two centuries
- 28. Orientalism in the last two centuries
- 29. Conclusion.