Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Presocratic Natural Philosophy
- 2 Reason, Experience, and Art: The Gorgias and On Ancient Medicine
- 3 Towards a Science of Life: The Cosmological Method, Teleology, and Living Things
- 4 Aristotle on the Matter for Birth, Life, and the Elements
- 5 From Craft to Nature: The Emergence of Natural Teleology
- 6 Creationism in Antiquity
- 7 What’s a Plant?
- 8 Meteorology
- 9 Ancient Greek Mathematics
- 10 Astronomy in Its Contexts
- 11 Ancient Greek Mechanics and the Mechanical Hypothesis
- 12 Measuring Musical Beauty: Instruments, Reason, and Perception in Ancient Harmonics
- 13 Ancient Greek Historiography of Science
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
Introduction
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 January 2020
Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Presocratic Natural Philosophy
- 2 Reason, Experience, and Art: The Gorgias and On Ancient Medicine
- 3 Towards a Science of Life: The Cosmological Method, Teleology, and Living Things
- 4 Aristotle on the Matter for Birth, Life, and the Elements
- 5 From Craft to Nature: The Emergence of Natural Teleology
- 6 Creationism in Antiquity
- 7 What’s a Plant?
- 8 Meteorology
- 9 Ancient Greek Mathematics
- 10 Astronomy in Its Contexts
- 11 Ancient Greek Mechanics and the Mechanical Hypothesis
- 12 Measuring Musical Beauty: Instruments, Reason, and Perception in Ancient Harmonics
- 13 Ancient Greek Historiography of Science
- Bibliography
- Index Locorum
- General Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
Summary
One of the hallmarks of Herodotus’ Histories (fifth century BCE) is the evidence that he offers of first-hand accounts from people living in various places, with different customs and points of view. However, regarding an explanation of the seasonal flooding of the river Nile, he complained that he could get no information from Egyptian priests, or ordinary Egyptians.
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