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A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume I: The Beginnings of Science

CONTENTS BOOK I

A HISTORY OF SCIENCE BOOK I

1.

I PREHISTORIC SCIENCE

2.

II EGYPTIAN SCIENCE

3.

III SCIENCE OF BABYLONIA AND ASSYRIA

4.

IV THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE ALPHABET

5.

V THE BEGINNINGS OF GREEK SCIENCE

6.

VI THE EARLY GREEK PHILOSOPHERS IN ITALY

7.

VII GREEK SCIENCE IN THE EARLY ATTIC PERIOD

8.

VIII POST-SOCRATIC SCIENCE AT ATHENS—PLATO, ARISTOTLE, AND THEOPHRASTUS

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9.

IX GREEK SCIENCE OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OR HELLENISTIC PERIOD

EUCLID (ABOUT 300 B.C.)

HEROPHILUS AND ERASISTRATUS

ARCHIMEDES OF SYRACUSE AND THE FOUNDATION OF MECHANICS

ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS, THE COPERNICUS OF ANTIQUITY

ERATOSTHENES, "THE SURVEYOR OF THE WORLD''

HIPPARCHUS, "THE LOVER OF TRUTH''

CTESIBIUS AND HERO: MAGICIANS OF ALEXANDRIA

Notes

10.

X SCIENCE OF THE ROMAN PERIOD

11.

XI A RETROSPECTIVE GLANCE AT CLASSICAL SCIENCE

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Notes

[[67]]

(p. 195). Tertullian's Apologeticus.

[[68]]

(p. 205). We quote the quaint old translation of North, printed in 1657.