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Greek Science in the Long Run : Essays on the Greek Scientific Tradition (4th c. BCE-17th c. CE).

Greek traditions relating to both the arts and sciences of life and health and those regarding the systematic development of theories of measurement and quantification enjoyed an incredibly long reputation and showed a kind of versatility that challenges any simplistic, dogmatic or a priori viewpoin...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Olmos, Paula
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2012.
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  • Table of contents; acknowledgements; introduction; part i; categorical anachronisms and their consequences for the history of science; ancient greece and gender studies; the field of argumentation; stochastic knowledge; euge, graeculi nostri!; giorgio valla, editor and translator of ancient scientific texts; part ii; the more it changes; musical terminology in plato's dialogues; on ptolemy's harmonics 2.4; euclid's swan song; part iii; philosophy and teleology; pharmaka; galen on body, temperaments and personalities; knowing the body; the forum vulcani in the work of juan huarte; contributors.