Record Nr.

UNISA996441545903316

Titolo

A companion to science, technology, and medicine in ancient Greece and Rome . Volume 1 / / edited by Georgia L. Irby

Pubbl/distr/stampa


Chichester, England : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2016
©2016

ISBN

1-118-37303-0

1-78684-891-0

1-118-37301-4

1-118-37305-7

1-118-37304-9

1-118-37297-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1317 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World

THEi Wiley ebooks

Disciplina

509.38

Soggetti

Science, Ancient

Science - Greece - History

Science - Rome - History

Technology - Greece - History

Technology - Rome - History

Medicine, Greek and Roman

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World; Title Page; Copyright; Contributor Biographies; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1. "Science" in Antiquity; 2. A Very Brief History of the "History of Greco-Roman Science"; 3. The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Science, Medicine, and Technology; 4. Transliterations and Translations; 5. Acknowledgments; References; Part I: Physics and Cosmogony; Chapter 1: The Creation and Destruction of the World; 1. Introduction; 2. Myth and Hesiod; 3. The Milesians; 4. Heraclitus; 5. The Hippocratics; 6. Eleatics; 7. Empedocles; 8. Anaxagoras

9. Leucippus and Democritus10. Plato; 11. Aristotle; 12. Epicurus and Lucretius; 13. Stoics; 14. Early Christians; 15. Conclusion; References; Further Reading; Notes; Chapter 2: Matter; 1. Introduction; 2. Matter in the Presocratics; 3. Socrates and Plato; 4. Aristotle; 5. Hellenistic Philosophy; 6. Neoplatonism; 7. Christian Thought; 8. Summary; References; Further Reading; Notes; Chapter 3: Motion and Energy; 1. Introduction; 2. Mathematical Mechanics up to Archimedes; 3. Philosophical Ideas about Motion; 4. Archimedes on Motion; 5. Mechanics in the Hellenistic Period; 6. Conclusion

ReferencesFurther Reading; Notes; Chapter 4: Nature and the Divine; 1. Introduction; 2. Myth and the Birth of "Gods and Earth"; 3. Presocratics; 4. Plato; 5. Stoics; 6. Aristotle; 7. Neoplatonists; 8. Conclusion; References; Further Reading; Notes; Part II: The Mathematical Sciences; Chapter 5: Mathematics; 1. Defining Ancient Greek Mathematics; 2. In Lieu of Historical Narrative: Questions of Chronology, Geography, Demography; 3. Themes of Greek Mathematics; References; Further Reading; Notes; Chapter 6: Astronomy; 1. Some Historiographical Issues; 2. Pre-Greek Astronomy

3. Euctemon and Meton4. Plato; 5. Eudoxus; 6. Callippus; 7. Aristotle; 8. Aristarchus; 9. Hipparchus; 10. Ptolemy; 11. Conclusion; References; Further Reading; Chapter 7: Astrology; 1. Astrology as the "Science of the Stars"; 2. Formation of Tradition: Mesopotamian Astrology; 3. Classical Astrology; 4. Astrology in the Roman Empire; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Ancient Optics: Theories and Problems of Vision; 1. Introduction; 2. Four Kinds of Visual Theory; 3. Theories of Color; 4. Perception of Size, Shape, Contour, and Distance; 5. The Science of Mirrors

6. A Grand Synthesis: Ptolemy's Optics7. Postscript; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9: Hydrostatics and Pneumatics in Antiquity; 1. Introduction; 2. Technology; Practical Knowledge in the Frame of Pneumatics; 3. Science; 4. Accumulation and Network; References; Further Reading; Notes; Chapter 10: The Science of Harmonics and Music Theory in Ancient Greece; 1. Introduction; 2. Organization of Musical Space; 3. Pythagoreans and Harmonikoi; 4. Aristoxenus; 5. The Euclidean Sectio Canonis; 6. Later Developments; References; Further Reading; Part III: Earth Sciences

Chapter 11: Hydrology: Ocean, Rivers, and Other Waterways

Record Nr.

UNINA9910716601403321

Titolo

Second Pan American Conference on Highways. Message from the President of the United States transmitting report from the Secretary of State, with accompanying papers, to the end that legislation may be enacted authorizing an appropriation of $ 15,000 to enable the United States to participate in the second Pan American Conference on Highways ... January 8, 1927. -- Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered to be printed

Pubbl/distr/stampa


[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Printing Office], , 1927

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (4 pages)

Collana

House document / 69th Congress, 2nd session. House ; ; no. 631

[United States congressional serial set] ; ; [serial no. 8734]

Altri autori (Persone)

CoolidgeCalvin <1872-1933.>

Soggetti

Clergy conferences

Congresses and conventions

Expense accounts

International relations

Roads - Design and construction

Roads

Legislative materials.