What Did the Romans Know?

Name: What Did the Romans Know?
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226143217
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An Inquiry into Science and Worldmaking

Автор: Daryn Lehoux

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: The University of Chicago Press

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What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascina...

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Автор

Daryn Lehoux

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2014

страници

288

EAN

9780226143217

ISBN

022614321X

Enbook ID

04543948

Издател

The University of Chicago Press

Теглоt

448

Размери

161 x 232 x 16

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What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans' views about the natural world have no place in modern science-that umbrella-footed monsters and dog-headed people roamed the earth and that the stars foretold human destinies - their claims turn out not to be so radically different from our own. Lehoux explores a wide range of sources from what is unquestionably the most prolific period of ancient science, from the highly technical works by Galen and Ptolemy to the more philosophically oriented physics and cosmologies of Cicero, Lucretius, Plutarch, and Seneca. Examining the tools and methods that the Romans employed for their investigations of nature, as well as their cultural, intellectual, political, and religious contexts, Lehoux demonstrates that the Romans had sophisticated and novel approaches to nature, approaches that were empirically rigorous, philosophically rich, and epistemologically complex.

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