From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades, Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and influential to be reprinted in this collection. They tackle a wide range of problems in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, focusing especially on science but including also medicine, mathematics, philosophy and mythology. Three common themes recur: the ancients' own concern with disciplinary boundaries, their engagement in polemics, and the heterogeneity of different traditions - cultivating different styles of reasoning with different results - in ancient science. Alongside papers that deal with technical issues in the interpretation of our sources, others raise strategic questions to do with the institutional framework of ancient science, the role of literacy in its development, and the underlying ontological and epistemological presuppositions of different groups of ancient investigators. The collection closes with a study in which Lloyd sets out how he sees the further comparative study of ancient science developing. Two of the articles appear here for the first time in English. The others are reprinted in their original form. Supplementary bibliographies are added referring to the most recent scholarship on the issues discussed.
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Professor Sir Geoffrey Lloyd FBA is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science, and Honorary Fellow at Darwin College, University of Cambridge, UK. He is also Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge, UK.
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For most of the long span of centuries that stretch from late antiquity to the present day, Greek medicine has formed a fundamental part of the training of medical students-and that was not simply to help them develop the skills in Greek and Latin that we Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Hippocrates of Chios, Cook Wilson, Cambridge University Press, Hippocratic Corpus, Euclid's Elements, Greek Science, Myles Burnyeat, New York, Seventh Letter, Oxford University Press, Posterior Analytics, Bibliotheca Mathematica, Classical Antiquity, Cornell University Press, Euclid Elements, Journal of Philology, The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems, The Hippocratic Tradition, The Revolutions of Wisdom New!
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For most of the long span of centuries that stretch from late antiquity to the present day, Greek medicine has formed a fundamental part of the training of medical students-and that was not simply to help them develop the skills in Greek and Latin that we Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Hippocrates of Chios, Cook Wilson, Cambridge University Press, Hippocratic Corpus, Euclid's Elements, Greek Science, Myles Burnyeat, New York, Seventh Letter, Oxford University Press, Posterior Analytics, Bibliotheca Mathematica, Classical Antiquity, Cornell University Press, Euclid Elements, Journal of Philology, The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems, The Hippocratic Tradition, The Revolutions of Wisdom New!
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- Posterior Analytics (Clarendon Aristotle) by Aristotle on 5 pages
- Chinese Science: Explorations of an Ancient Tradition (M.I.T. East Asian science series) by Shigeru Nakayama on 4 pages
- The Hippocratic Tradition (Cornell publications in the history of science) by Wesley D. Smith on 4 pages
- The Inner Chapters by Zhuangzi in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Knowledge and the Scholarly Medical Traditions by Don Bates in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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