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HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
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Science -- Greece -- History.
Science and civilization.
Science, Ancient.
Mathematics, Greek -- History.
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Science and mathematics in ancient Greek culture / edited by C.J. Tuplin and T.E. Rihll.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Subjects
Science -- Greece -- History.
Science and civilization.
Science, Ancient.
Mathematics, Greek -- History.
ISBN:
0198152485 (acid-free paper) :
Description:
xvi, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Greek science in context / T.E. Rihll -- Words for sounds / Andrew Barker -- Ptolemy's maps as an introduction to ancient science / J.L. Berggren -- Seismology and vulcanology in antiquity? / Harry M. Hine -- The art of the commander and the emergence of predictive astronomy / Alan C. Bowen -- Euctemon's Parapēgma / R. Hannah -- Instruments of Alexandrian astronomy: the uses of the equinoctial rings / L. Taub -- The dioptra of Hero of Alexandria / J.J. Coulton -- The machine and the city: Hero of Alexandria's Belopoeica / S. Cuomo -- The limitations of ancient atomism / J.R. Milton -- Greek mathematicians: a group picture / R. Netz -- Aristotle and mathematics / Edward Hussey -- Euclid's Elements 9. 14 and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic / C.M. Taisbak -- Ancient medicine: Asclepius transformed / V. Nutton -- Galen on the seat of intellect: anatomical experiment and philosophical tradition / Teun Tieleman -- Practice makes perfect: knowledge of materials in classical Athens / T.E. Rihll and J.V. Tucker -- Distilling, sublimation, and the four elements: the aims and achievements of the earliest Greek chemists / C. Anne Wilson.
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