Acknowledgements
Dedication
The Creation of Science
1. The Early Greeks and their Predecessors
Science Must Begin with Myths
Two Cultures
Cosmos : an Elegant Universe
Myths and Theories
Natural Phenomena
2. The First Scientific Theories
The Fathers of Medicine
Eleatics and Atomists :Achilles and the Tortoise
The Pythagoreans:the Secret Magic of Numbers
Come the Time of Proof
Euclid
Science and Technology
Great Achievement Assured
3. Men of the World
Plato
Teleology:the Best of all Possible Worlds
Atomism : Let us Trace the Pattern
No Slight or Trivial Influence
Aristotle: The Master of Those who Know
The Terrestrial Realm
The Heavens
Speculations Upon Matter
Aristotle and Qualities
Explanations
Direction of Explanation : Clockwork Lives
4. Heavenly Thoughts
Eudoxus : Thinking Regressively
Ptolemaic Astronomy
The Four Seasons
Revolutionary Thinking
Modelling the Heavens
5. The Origins of the Cosmos and of Life:
Consider your Origins
6. Medicine and the Life Sciences
Galen
Ancient Thought on Blood
Aristotle and Biology: Biology's Beginnings
Embryology and Species
Taxonomy
7. Later Greek Science: After Aristotle
Epicurus and Epicureanism : on the Nature of Things
Stoics:the Active and the Passive
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The Creation of Science
Appendices
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