Greek and Roman Science (World History Series)

by Don Nardo

Hardcover, 1997

Status

Available

Call number

509 Nar

Call number

509 Nar

Local notes

938 Nar

Barcode

6464

Collection

Publication

Lucent Books (1997), Library Binding, 128 pages

Description

Examines the efforts of Greeks and Romans to study and understand the underlying principles of nature and discusses their development of a more systematic approach to science.

Physical description

128 p.; 9.35 inches

User reviews

LibraryThing member themulhern
Serviceable, but way too teleological. The people, the locations, the theories, the schools, all that is good. But with every instance of an ancient Greek cosmological or physical hypothesis that has some superficial resemblance to what we moderns know and the originating philosopher gets an
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implied gold star for being "almost right".
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Pages

128

Rating

½ (1 rating; 2.5)
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