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In this new series leading classical scholars interpret afresh the ancient world for the modern reader. They stress those questions and institutions that most c

Although there is no exact equivalent to our term science in Greek, Western science may still be said to have originated with the Greeks, for they were the firs

In his previous volume in this series, Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle, G. E. R. Lloyd pointed out that although there is no exact equivalent to our te

We all want to understand the world around us, and the ancient Greeks were the first to try and do so in a way we can properly call scientific. Their thought an

First published in 2002. The history of science is one of knowledge being passed from community to community over thousands of years, and this is the classic ac