GREEK SCIENCE IN ANTIQUITY

This short, lucid history – aimed at readers without specialized scientific backgrounds – outlines the origins and development of Greek science, including those important years between 600 B.C. and 400 B.C., a period during which much Greek scientific knowledge attained the form in which it passed to the Latin West.

Professor Marshall Clagett offers detailed coverage on every branch of ancient science: early natural philosophy, Greek medicine, biology, mathematics, physics, and astronomy; Roman science, Latin science in late antiquity and in the early Middle Ages; Greek science in the age of Justinian; and much more. The text also contains seven important appendices dealing with Archimedes and the quadrature of the circle, the application of mechanics to geometry, the development of conic sections, the movements of the planets and the moon according to Ptolemy, an Ptolemy's table of chord lengths, among others.