The flame of Miletus : the birth of science in ancient Greece (and how it changed the world) /
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Author / Creator: | Freely, John. |
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Imprint: | London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2012. |
Description: | ix, 238 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
Language: | English |
Subject: | Science, Ancient. Science -- Greece -- History. Intellectual life. Science. Science, Ancient. Greece -- Intellectual life -- To 146 B.C. Greece. History. |
Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8923668 |
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260 | |a London ; |a New York : |b I.B. Tauris, |c 2012. | ||
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504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-235) and index. | ||
505 | 0 | |a Ionian enlightenment -- Harmony and Logos -- The one and the atom -- The school of Hellas -- The grove of Apollo -- Aristotle's successors -- The geometrization of nature -- Measuring heaven and earth -- Moving the world -- Mathematics, astronomy and geography -- Ingenious devices -- The art of healing -- Spheres within spheres -- Classical twilight -- From Byzantium and Islam to western Europe -- The Renaissance : Byzantium to Italy -- The scientific revolution : Greek science reborn -- Eureka! : Greek science rediscovered. | |
520 | 8 | |a Miletus - one of the wealthiest and most important towns in ancient Greece - spawned the great traditions of Greek science and philosophy, setting in motion a chain of knowledge that would change the world forever. This book explains the extraordinary development of Greek science and its subsequent diffusion to the wider world-- |c Source other than Library of Congress. | |
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