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Author: George Sarton Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486277402 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 593
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Noted scholar's brilliant recapitulation of an especially fertile period for Greek astronomy, physics, mathematics, other sciences. Also illuminating discussions of art, religion, literature, more. "A wonderful book." ? Scientific American.
Author: George Sarton Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486277402 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 593
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Noted scholar's brilliant recapitulation of an especially fertile period for Greek astronomy, physics, mathematics, other sciences. Also illuminating discussions of art, religion, literature, more. "A wonderful book." ? Scientific American.
Author: Marquis Berrey Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG ISBN: 3110541939 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 282
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The development of science in the modern world is often held to depend on such institutions as universities, peer-reviewed journals, and democracy. How, then, did new science emerge in the pre-modern culture of the Hellenistic Egyptian monarchy? Berrey argues that the court society formed around the Ptolemaic pharaohs Ptolemy III and IV (reigned successively 246-205/4 BCE) provided an audience for cross-disciplinary, learned knowledge, as physicians, mathematicians, and mechanicians clothed themselves in the virtues of courtiers attendant on the kings. The multicultural Greco-Egyptian court society prized entertainment that drew on earlier literature, mixed genres and cultures, and highlighted motion and sound. New cross-disciplinary science in the Hellenistic period gained its social currency and subsequent scientific success through its entertainment value as court science. Ancient court science sheds light on the long history of scientific interdisciplinarity.
Author: George Sarton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Civilization, Ancient Languages : en Pages : 588
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No more published. Bibliographical footnotes. Bibliography: v. 1, p. [615]; v. 2, p. 528. [1] Ancient science through the Golden Age of Greece.--[2] Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries B.C.
Author: Lucio Russo Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3642189040 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 490
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The period from the late fourth to the late second century B. C. witnessed, in Greek-speaking countries, an explosion of objective knowledge about the external world. WhileGreek culture had reached great heights in art, literature and philosophyalreadyin the earlier classical era, it is in the so-called Hellenistic period that we see for the ?rst time — anywhere in the world — the appearance of science as we understand it now: not an accumulation of facts or philosophically based speculations, but an or- nized effort to model nature and apply such models, or scienti?ctheories in a sense we will make precise, to the solution of practical problems and to a growing understanding of nature. We owe this new approach to scientists such as Archimedes, Euclid, Eratosthenes and many others less familiar todaybut no less remarkable. Yet, not long after this golden period, much of this extraordinary dev- opment had been reversed. Rome borrowed what it was capable of from the Greeks and kept it for a little while yet, but created very little science of its own. Europe was soon smothered in theobscurantism and stasis that blocked most avenues of intellectual development for a thousand years — until, as is well known, the rediscovery of ancient culture in its fullness paved the way to the modern age.
Author: Jed Z. Buchwald Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 9400726279 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 434
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New essays in science history ranging across the entire field and related in most instance to the works of Charles Gillispie, one of the field's founders.
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