Author: G. E. R. Lloyd Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Science, Non Fiction, Philosophy
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ISBNs: 9780393005837 0393005836 |
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This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers, and Aristotle. G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between science and philosophy and science and medicine; he discusses the social and economic setting of early Greek science; and he analyzes the motives and incentives of the different groups of writers.
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