A History of Science, in Two Volumes: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece; Hellenistic Science and Culture in the Last Three Centuries B.C.

xxvi, 646; xxvi, 554 pp. Two volume set. VOLUME ONE CONTENTS: Part One. Oriental and Greek Origins: The Dawn of Science; Egypt; Mesopotamia; Dark Interlude; The Dawn of Greek Culture, Homer and Hesiod; Assyrian Intermezzo; Ionian Science in the Sixth Century; Pythagoras. Part Two. The Fifth Century: Greece Against Persia, the Glory of Athens; Philosophy and Science to the Death of Socrates; Mathematics, Astronomy, and Technology in the Fifth Century; Geographers and Historians of the Fifth Century; Greek Medicine of the Fifth Century, Chiefly Hippocratic; The Hippocratic Corpus: Main Medical Writings, The Surgical Books, Medical Philosophy and Essays, Aphoristic Writings, Deontology, Letters; Coan Archaeology. Part Three. The Fourth Century: Plato and the Academy; Mathematics and Astronomy in Plato's Time; Xenophon; Aristotle and Alexander, The Lyceum; Mathematics, Astronomy, and Physics in Aristotle's Time; The Natural Sciences and Medicine in Aristotle's Time; Aristotelian Humanities and Historiography in the Second Half of the Fourth Century; Other Theories of Life and of Knowledge, The Garden and the Porch; Epilogue: The End of a Cycle; General Bibliography; Index. VOLUME TWO CONTENTS: Foreword by I. Bernard Cohen; Part One. The Third Century: The Alexandrian Renaissance; The Museum; Euclid of Alexandria; Astronomy, Aristarchos and Aratos; Archimedes and Apolonios ;Geography and Chronology in the Third Century Eratosthenes of Cyrene; Physics and Technology in the Third Century; Anatomy in the Third Century; Medicine in the Third Century; The Library; Philosophy and Religion in the Third Century; Knowledge of the Past in the Third Century; Language, Arts, and Letters; Orientalism. Part Two. The Last Two Centuries: The Social Background; Religion in the Last Two Centuries; Philosophy in the Last Two Centuries, Poseidonios, Circero, and Lucretius; Mathematics in the Last Two Centuries; Astronomy in the Last Two Centuries, Hipparchos of Nicaia; Physics and Technology in the Last Two Centuries, Ctesibios, Philon of Byzantion, Vitruvius; Natural History (Chiefly Agriculture); Medicine in the Last Two Centuries; Geography in the Last Two Centuries, Crates and Strabon; Knowledge of the Past in the Last Two Centuries; Literature; Philology in the Last Two Centuries; Art in the Last Two Centuries; Orientalism in the Last Two Centuries; Conclusion; General Bibliography; Index.