The study of ancient science and its relations with Greek philosophy has made a significant and growing contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and civilisation. This collection of articles on Greek science contains fifteen of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd in this area since 1961, together with three unpublished articles. The topics range over all areas and periods of Greek science, including astronomy, cosmology, biology and medicine from the earliest Presocratic philosophers to Ptolemy and Galen. Several focus on important methodological problems: others on the social background to Greek science, on the motivations of ancient Greek scientists, their aims and the implicit assumptions that influenced their work. In each case the article is preceded by an introduction that assesses scholarly debate on the topic since the original publication. Professor Lloyd also suggests modifications and developments to his own position in the light of those debates and his own further research.
The study of ancient science and its relations with Greek philosophy has made a significant and growing contribution to our understanding of ancient thought and civilisation. This collection of articles on Greek science contains fifteen of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd in this area since 1961, together with three unpublished articles. The topics range over all areas and periods of Greek science, including astronomy, cosmology, biology and medicine from the earliest Presocratic philosophers to Ptolemy and Galen. Several focus on important methodological problems: others on the social background to Greek science, on the motivations of ancient Greek scientists, their aims and the implicit assumptions that influenced their work. In each case the article is preceded by an introduction that assesses scholarly debate on the topic since the original publication. Professor Lloyd also suggests modifications and developments to his own position in the light of those debates and his own further research.
Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. The development of Aristotle's theory of the classification of animals; 2. Right and left in Greek philosophy; 3. Who is attacked in On Ancient Medicine?; 4. Experiment in early Greek philosophy and medicine; 5. Popper versus Kirk: a controversy in the interpretation of Greek science; 6. The social background of early Greek philosophy and science; 7. Greek cosmologies; 8. Alcmaeon and the early history of dissection; 9. The Hippocratic question; 10. The empirical basis of the physiology of the Parva Naturalia; 11. Saving the appearances; 12. The debt of Greek philosophy and science to the ancient Near East; 13. Observational error in later Greek science; 14. Plato on mathematics and nature, myth and science; 15. Science and morality in Greco-Roman antiquity; 16. Aristotle's zoology and his metaphysics: the status quaestionis: a critical review of some recent theories; 17. Galen on Hellenistics and Hippocrateans; 18. The invention of nature; Index of passages cited; General index.
A collection of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd on Greek science since 1961.
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