Bibliograph

History of science, antiquity to 1700, Lawrence M. Principe, Pt. 1

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History of science, antiquity to 1700, Lawrence M. Principe, Pt. 1

Language

eng

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instructional materials

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Literary text for sound recordings

lectures speeches

Main title

History of science

Oclc number

51743691

Responsibility statement

Lawrence M. Principe

Series statement

The great courses

Sub title

antiquity to 1700

Summary

Surveys the history of science in the western world from the second millennium B.C. to the early eighteenth century

Table Of Contents

part I: lecture 1. Beginning the journey -- lecture 2. Babylonians, Egyptians, and Greeks -- lecture 3. The Presocratics -- lecture 4. Plato and the Pythagoreans -- lecture 5. Plato's cosmos -- lecture 6. Aristotle's view of the natural world -- lecture 7. Aristotelian cosmology and physics -- lecture 8. Hellenistic natural philosophy -- lecture 9. Greek astronomy from Eudoxus to Ptolemy -- lecture 10. The Roman contributions -- lecture 11. Roman versions of Greek science and education -- lecture 12. The end of the Classical world

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