The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs

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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT NATURAL SCIENTISTS The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English ...

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THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT NATURAL SCIENTISTS The Greek tradition and its many heirs Edited by Paul T. Keyser and Georgia L. Ir ...

First published 2008 by Routledge 2 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN Simultaneously published in the USA and Ca ...

“... the person who is used to inquiry tries every possible pathway as he conducts his search and turns in every direction, and, ...

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CONTENTS (by ethnicity, women scientists, monotheists, poets, rulers, emendations, new in EANS, ...

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ILLUSTRATIONS He ̄ rodotos of Halikarnassos © Biblioteca Nazionale “Vittorio Emanuele III”, ...

x Introduction List of Illustrations ix Note to Users A B C (also see K) D E F G H I (and J) K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z Ga ...

INTRODUCTION This work provides a synoptic survey of all “ancient,” i.e., Greek and Greek-based, natural science, broadly define ...

or even primarily what is now extant or canonical is to distort. As a result, we include the obvious major authors, but also all ...

“Cafca” for the Czech novelist or “Cant” for the Prussian philosopher. The direct transliter- ation of certain very familiar Gre ...

important questions. Any adequate treatment of such issues is outside the scope of this work, but we have provided a Glossary of ...

However, to alter it significantly would require establishing a narrower date-range for a large number of the poorly-dated scien ...

items to be discovered, perhaps principally late in the alphabet, or from the early Byzantine period (330– 650 ), or among the ...

Brian Campbell (Agrimensores) School of History and Anthropology, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Bruno ...

Aurélie Gribomont (Herme ̄s, Kore ̄ Kosmou) Faculteit Letteren, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Antonino Grillon ...

Volker Langholf (Hippokratic Corpus) Classics Department, Universität Hamburg, Germany Julie Laskaris (Hippokratic Corpus) Depar ...