Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Note on Dates Foreword (by the series editor) Ch 1: Strange Worlds Ch 2: Strange Creatures Ch 3: Natural Laws and How to Discover Them Ch 4: Illness and Disease Ch 5: Controlling the World Ch 6: Then and Now Some Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index

Promotional Information

Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, this work addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.

About the Author

Philippa Lang was Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University, and is the author of Medicine in Ptolemaic Egypt (2012).