The Cambridge History of Science, Volume 1: Ancient Science

Contents......Page 2
Notes on contributors......Page 7
General editors preface......Page 12
Acknowledgments......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Part I Mesopotamia......Page 20
Chapt 1 Science and Ancient Mesopotamia......Page 22
Chapt 2 Babylonian Medicine as a Discipline......Page 44
Chapt 3 Mesopotamian Mathematics......Page 73
Chapt 4 Babylonian and Assyrian Astral Science......Page 88
Part II Egypt......Page 114
Chapt 5 Cultural Context of Mathematical Experts in Ancient Egypt......Page 116
Chapt 6 Egyptian Medicine......Page 135
Chapt 7 Egyptian Calendars and Astronomy......Page 146
Chapt 8 Egyptian Mathematics......Page 159
Part III Greek and Greco-Roman......Page 175
Chapt 9 Physical and Cosmological Thought Before Aristotle......Page 177
Chapt 10 Aristotle: An overview......Page 195
Chapt 11 Aristotle's physical theory......Page 210
Chapt 12 Aristotle and the origins of zoology......Page 229
Chapt 13 Botany......Page 252
Chapt 14 Science after Aristotle: Hellenistic and Roman Science......Page 262
Chapt 15 Late antiquity: Science in the philosophical schools......Page 292
Chapt 16 Medicine in early and classical greece......Page 307
Chapt 17 Hellenistic and Roman medicine......Page 330
Chapt 18 Greek mathematics......Page 359
Chapt 19 Greco-Roman astronomy and astrology......Page 388
Chapt 20 Greek and Greco-Roman geography......Page 416
Chapt 21 Greek optics......Page 427
Chapt 22 Harmonics......Page 442
Chapt 23 Greek mechanics......Page 463
Chapt 24 Greco-Egyptian alchemy......Page 482
Part IV India......Page 497
Chapt 25 Astronomy and astrology in India......Page 499
Chapt 26 Mathematics in early India......Page 515
Chapt 27 Indian medicine and ayurveda......Page 546
Part V China......Page 565
Chapt 28 Mathematical knowledge and practices from early imperial China until the Tang Dynasty......Page 567
Chapt 29 Medicine and healing in Han China......Page 588
Chapt 30 Chinese astronomy in the early imperial age: A brief outline......Page 609
Index......Page 631