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1. Ancient Medicine

   2nd Edition

   By Vivian Nutton

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   The first edition of Ancient Medicine was the most complete examination of the medicine of the ancient world for a hundred years. The new edition includes the key discoveries made since the first edition, especially from important texts discovered in recent finds of papyri and manuscripts, making...

   Published October 31st 2012 by Routledge
2. Time in Antiquity

   By Robert Hannah

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   Time in Antiquity explores the different perceptions of time from Classical antiquity, principally through the technology designed to measure, mark or tell time. The material discussed ranges from the sixth century BC in archaic Greece to the 3rd century AD in the Roman Empire, and offers...

   Published November 24th 2008 by Routledge
3. Ancient Meteorology

   By Liba Taub

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical...

   Published May 14th 2003 by Routledge
4. Ancient Mathematics

   By Serafina Cuomo

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   The theorem of Pythagoras, Euclid's "Elements", Archimedes' method to find the volume of a sphere: all parts of the invaluable legacy of ancient mathematics. But ancient mathematics was also about counting and measuring, surveying land and attributing mystical significance to the number six. This...

   Published July 25th 2001 by Routledge
5. Cosmology in Antiquity

   By Rosemary Wright

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek philosophers first 'looked up at the sky and formed a...

   Published June 28th 1995 by Routledge
6. Ancient Natural History

   Histories of Nature

   By Roger French

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature. The writings of Aristotle, Theophrastus, Strabo, Pliny are examined, as well as the popular beliefs of their contemporaries. Roger French finds that the same natural-historical material was used to...

   Published October 26th 1994 by Routledge
7. Ancient Astrology

   By Tamysn Barton

   Series: Sciences of Antiquity Series

   An account of astrology from its beginnings in Mesopotamia, focusing on the Greco-Roman world, Ancient Astrology examines the theoretical development and changing social and political role of astrology....

   Published October 5th 1994 by Routledge