LEADER 04116nam 22005895 450 001 9910494602903321 005 20211022012623.0 010 $a1-280-12622-1 010 $a9786613530080 010 $a0-226-47115-2 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226471150 035 $a(CKB)2670000000160676 035 $a(EBL)870850 035 $a(OCoLC)780445872 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000659537 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12253126 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000659537 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10697063 035 $a(PQKB)11518322 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000123041 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC870850 035 $a(DE-B1597)523926 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226471150 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000160676 100 $a20200424h20122012 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWhat Did the Romans Know? $eAn Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking /$fDaryn Lehoux 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d[2012] 210 4$dİ2012 215 $a1 online resource (289 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-47114-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. The Web of Knowledge --$t2. Nature, Gods, and Governance --$t3. Law in Nature, Nature in Law --$t4. Epistemology and Judicial Rhetoric --$t5. The Embeddedness of Seeing --$t6. The Trouble with Taxa --$t7. The Long Reach of Ontology --$t8. Dreams of a Final Theory --$t9. Of Miracles and Mistaken Theories --$t10. Worlds Given, Worlds Made --$t11. Conclusion --$tAppendix: Lemma to the Mirror Problem --$tReference List --$tIndex 330 $aWhat did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about the natural world have no place in modern science-the umbrella-footed monsters and dog-headed people that roamed the earth and the stars that foretold human destinies-their claims turn out not to be so radically different from our own. Lehoux draws upon a wide range of sources from what is unquestionably the most prolific period of ancient science, from the first century BC to the second century AD. He begins with Cicero's theologico-philosophical trilogy On the Nature of the Gods, On Divination, and On Fate, illustrating how Cicero's engagement with nature is closely related to his concerns in politics, religion, and law. Lehoux then guides readers through highly technical works by Galen and Ptolemy, as well as the more philosophically oriented physics and cosmologies of Lucretius, Plutarch, and Seneca, all the while exploring the complex interrelationships between the objects of scientific inquiry and the norms, processes, and structures of that inquiry. This includes not only the tools and methods the Romans used to investigate nature, but also the Romans' cultural, intellectual, political, and religious perspectives. Lehoux concludes by sketching a methodology that uses the historical material he has carefully explained to directly engage the philosophical questions of incommensurability, realism, and relativism. By situating Roman arguments about the natural world in their larger philosophical, political, and rhetorical contexts, What Did the Romans Know? demonstrates that the Romans had sophisticated and novel approaches to nature, approaches that were empirically rigorous, philosophically rich, and epistemologically complex. 606 $aScience, Ancient 606 $aScience$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aScience, Ancient. 615 0$aScience$xHistory. 676 $a930.1 700 $aLehoux$b Daryn$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0710673 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910494602903321 996 $aWhat Did the Romans Know$92148537 997 $aUNINA