What Did the Romans Know? : An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking /

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What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about the natural world have no place in modern scie...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Lehoux, Daryn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2012]
Temas:
Science > History.
Science, Ancient.
HISTORY / General.
science, ancient world, roman empire, antiquity, history, nonfiction, cicero, ptolemy, galen, seneca, plutarch, lucretius, scientific inquiry, nature, methodology, incommensurability, realism, relativism, gods, governance, divinity, divination, republic, politics, legitimacy, authority, fabulae, epistemology, rhetoric, observation, vision, seeing, experience, truth, meaning, ontology, determinism, cosmos, empiricism, philosophy, metaphysics.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. The Web of Knowledge
  • 2. Nature, Gods, and Governance
  • 3. Law in Nature, Nature in Law
  • 4. Epistemology and Judicial Rhetoric
  • 5. The Embeddedness of Seeing
  • 6. The Trouble with Taxa
  • 7. The Long Reach of Ontology
  • 8. Dreams of a Final Theory
  • 9. Of Miracles and Mistaken Theories
  • 10. Worlds Given, Worlds Made
  • 11. Conclusion
  • Appendix: Lemma to the Mirror Problem
  • Reference List
  • Index

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