microscope or telescope. On the other hand, the recent discovery of the ‘Antikythera
mechanism’, a remarkably complex device for illustrating the relative motions of the
sun and the moon, called the first analogue computer, testifies to the creativity of
Greek inventiveness at its best.
Further reading
Luce, J.V., An Introduction to Greek Philosophy, Thames and Hudson, 1993.
Hussey, E., The Presocratics, Duckworth, 1972.
Kraut, Richard (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Plato, Cambridge University Press, 1992.
Barnes, Jonathon (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Aristotle,Cambridge University Press,
1995.
Howie, George, Aristotle on Education, Collier-Macmillan, 1968.
Nussbaum, M.C., The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy,
Cambridge University Press, 1986.
Long, A.A., Hellenistic Philosophy, second edition, University of California Press, 1986.
Longrigg James, Greek Rational Medicine, Routledge, 1993.
Lloyd G.E.R., Greek Science After Aristotle, Norton, 1973.
Irby-Massie, Georgia. and Keyser Paul T., Greek Science of the Hellenistic Era: A Sourcebook,
Routledge, 2002.
Humphrey, John W., Oleson John P., and Sherwood Andrew N., Greek and Roman Technology:
A Sourcebook, Routledge, 1998.
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