Natural knowledge in preclassical antiquity
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Natural knowledge in preclassical antiquity
Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999, c1992
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  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
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  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
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  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
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  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
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Note
"Paperback edition, 1999" -- T. p. verso. Reprinted. Originally published: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1992
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In describing the origins of modern "science", historians often fail to appreciate or misread how the ancients understood and used significant expressions of "natural knowledge". Few read the story of the cyclops, for example, as useful advice about where to travel and settle -- and where not to. Others search for "lost Egyptian wisdom" rather than see how the great pyramids of the Old Kingdom could be built with the simple tools and cumbersome mathematics of the time. Mott T. Greene reexamines the remnants of ancient life using conceptual tools seldom brought to bear on such material. The result is a fresh appraisal of what the evidence will yield about natural phenomena and modes of thought in the distant past. Greene builds on the work of modern scholars but contributes scientific precision and tenacity to debates in areas as diverse as archaeology, early art history, Egyptian fractions, Indo-Iranian religion, classical Greek verse, and Plato's "problem of knowledge".
Table of Contents
Contents: Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1: Prehistory Chapter 2: Egyptian Fractions Chapter 3: Hesiod's Volcanoes I. Titans and Typhoeus Chapter 4: Hesiod's Volcanoes II. Natural History of Cyclopes Chapter 5: Thales and Halys Chapter 6: The True Identity of Soma Chapter 7: Plato's Myths Notes Index
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