Science: antiquity and its legacy
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London ; New York
I.B. Tauris
2016
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| Schriftenreihe: | Ancients and moderns
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| Beschreibung: | XIV, 226 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 9781780761718 9780857739551 |
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acknowledgements
NOTE ON DATES xi
FOREWORD {by Pkiroze Vasunia) xiii
CHAPTER!: STRANGE WORLDS
The Pre-Socratics 1
The Pigeons and the Physicists 5
In the Beginning 7
Nothing Can Come Out of Nothing 9
The Uses of Infinity 12
The Mechanics of Eternity 16
Problems with Time 21
Growing Seeds and Bouncing Universes 24
CHAPTER II: STRANGE CREATURES
The Origins of Life 28
Implications of Fossils 33
Origins of Species 36
The Origins of Successful Theories 43
Plato and Primates 50
SCIENCE: ANTIQVLTYAND ITS LEGACY
CHAPTER III: NATURAL LAWS AND HOW TO DISCOVER THEM
The Category ’Nature1 53
Aristotle and the Modern Scientific Method 57
Objects in Space 64
Objects in Motion (I) 66
Objects in Motion (II) 73
Motion into Empty Spaces 76
Paradigm Shifts 84
CHAPTER IV: ILLNESS AND DISEASE
Medical Cultures 88
Naturalistic^ Medicine: An Influential Meme 91
When to Use an Amulet 96
Q£D? 101
The Contagion Superstition 109
Theories about Women 117
CHAPTER V: CONTROLLING THE WORLD
Rhomboids Are Forever 128
First Find Your Mathematician 129
The Rise of the Astronomers 133
Mapping the World 140
Mapping the Cosmos 145
Empire by Numbers 148
The Rise of the Machine-Makers 152
Cubes, Catapults, Computers 155
Formulas to Live by 163
Weaponise Your Way to Inner Peace 167
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER VI: THEN AND NOW
On Not Being Human 175
Tomorrow’s Pseudo-Science 181
Hippocrates in the Twenty-First Century 188
SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING 203
NOTES 211
INDEX 224
ix
MODERN SCIENCE AND ITS TECHNOLOGY
are rhe children of the seventeenth ce nrtirv. But the
bold investigative experimentation and scientific
systems of thought that this era spawned were in
turn thoroughly influenced by Cheek and Roman
authors and ideas. Xenophanes ideas about fossils
informed the science of geology. (Copernicus and
his novel notion that the earth revolved around the
sun, and not vice versa, were arguably influenced
bv the Samian philosopher and mathematician,
Aristarchus. And the anatomists of Alexandria
still — even todav — have valuable insights to brine;
to current ethical discussions of vivisection and
animal welfare.
Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid s
geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-
Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles.
Philippa Lang here addresses the fascinating
differences and similarities between ancient and
modern conceptions of science . She discusses the
origins of the cosmos; natural laws in mathematics
and physics; conceptions and philosophies of
biolo^v and disease; ideas about mechanistic
science and technology as thev have been used
to control the societies of human beings; and the
important nexus between science, morality and
ethics. J he author convincingly shows that (Creek
and Roman parallels illuminate and clarify the
meaning· of science itself.
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