Wrestling with Nature From Omens to Science

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Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Natural Knowledge in Ancient Mesopotamia 9
Francesca Rochberg

2 Natural Knowledge in the Classical World 37
Daryn Lehoux

3 Natural Knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages 59
Jon McGinnis

4 Natural Knowledge in the Latin Middle Ages 83
Michael H. Shank

5 Natural History 117
Peter Harrison

6 Mixed Mathematics 149
Peter Dear

7 Natural Philosophy 173
John L. Heilbron

8 Science and Medicine 201
Ronald L. Numbers

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