The Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Sciences

List of contents

List of Illustrations Introduction Note to Users Entries A-Z Gazetteer Glossary Timeline Topics Indices

About the author

Paul Keyser’s publications include work on gravitational physics, computer science, stylometry, Greek tragedy, and ancient science. Formerly a teacher of Classics, he is currently crafting Java for IBM’s Watson Research Center.

Georgia L. Irby-Massie is Assistant Professor at the College of William and Mary. Her research broadly investigates reflections of science in literature and society, and includes publications on astrology, geography, natural philosophy in tragedy, and women scientists.

Summary

Presents a survey of ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. This title explains many Greek (or Latin) terms difficult to translate. It also describes the many locales from which scientists came. It shows the rapid rise in the practice of science in the 5th century BCE and rapid decline after Hadrian.

Additional text

'There is nothing even remotely as good ...this is of immense usefulness for an individual or a library.' – CHOICE
‘Its extent and arrangement, from the introduction through the pages of bibliography, the encyclopaedia proper with its illustrations of portraits, busts and geometrical and astronomical diagrams, to the copious classifications, indexes and finding aids, point to much painstaking labour and careful planning. This is … a work of immense scholarship.’ – Reference Reviews

Product details

• Authors: Paul T. Keyser, T. Keyser Paul
• Assisted by: Georgia L. Irby-Massie (Editor), Georgia L. (College of William and Mary Irby-Massie (Editor), Paul T. Keyser (Editor), Ibm T. J. Watson Paul T. Keyser (Editor)
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 08.12.2008
• EAN: 9780415340205
• ISBN: 978-0-415-34020-5
• Dimensions: 183 mm x 255 mm x 53 mm
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); European History, SCIENCE / History, HISTORY / Europe / General, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, History of Science, Ancient History, Classical history / classical civilisation, BCE to c 500 CE, BCE period – Protohistory