Science and mathematics in ancient Greek culture / edited by C.J. Tuplin and T.E. Rihll.
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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Table of Contents:
- Greek science in context / T.E. Rihll
- Words for sounds / Andrew Barker
- Ptolemy's maps as an introduction to ancient science / J.L. Berggren
- Seismology and vulcanology in antiquity? / Harry M. Hine
- The art of the commander and the emergence of predictive astronomy / Alan C. Bowen
- Euctemon's Parapēgma / R. Hannah
- Instruments of Alexandrian astronomy: the uses of the equinoctial rings / L. Taub
- The dioptra of Hero of Alexandria / J.J. Coulton
- The machine and the city: Hero of Alexandria's Belopoeica / S. Cuomo
- The limitations of ancient atomism / J.R. Milton
- Greek mathematicians: a group picture / R. Netz
- Aristotle and mathematics / Edward Hussey
- Euclid's Elements 9. 14 and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic / C.M. Taisbak
- Ancient medicine: Asclepius transformed / V. Nutton
- Galen on the seat of intellect: anatomical experiment and philosophical tradition / Teun Tieleman
- Practice makes perfect: knowledge of materials in classical Athens / T.E. Rihll and J.V. Tucker
- Distilling, sublimation, and the four elements: the aims and achievements of the earliest Greek chemists / C. Anne Wilson.