Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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  1. See, e.g., Richard England, “Natural Selection, Teleology, and the Logos: From
    Darwin to the Oxford Neo- Darwinists, 1859–1909,” Osiris 16 (2001): 270–87; C. Allen,
    M. Bekoff, and G. Lauder, eds., Nature’s Purposes (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University
    Press, 1998).

  2. Vivian Nutton (plausibly) estimates Galen’s surviving work as constituting
    about 10 percent of all extant ancient Greek literature; see Nutton, Ancient Medicine,
    390n22.

  3. Galen On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body 16.4.

  4. Ibid., 6.11.

  5. On atomism and its revivals, see H. Jones, The Epicurean Tradition (London:
    Routledge, 1992).

  6. Galen, On the Usefulness of the Parts of the Body 17.1.

  7. See, e.g., his comments on Methodism—a rival medical school that disparaged
    anatomy—in On the Sects, for Beginners 6–7, but a constantly repeated emphasis on the
    importance of anatomy recurs throughout his corpus.

  8. Aristotole, On the Heavens 1.2.

  9. The arguments for this are complex, and differ to some degree between the ver-
    sions in Metaphysics 12 and Physics 8, not to mention some of the shorter versions in
    other texts (e.g., On Generation and Corruption; On the Movement of Animals).

  10. See Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods 2.

  11. Indeed, most Hellenistic schools saw themselves as centrally concerned with
    ethics; see, e.g., K. Algra et al., eds., The Cambridge History of Hellenistic Philosophy
    (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999); P. Hadot, What Is Ancient Phisosophy?
    (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002).

  12. See, e.g., C. Ando, Roman Religion (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,
    2003).


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