Table of Contents

Lewis Wolpert: Foreword
1: T. E. Rihll: Introduction: Greek Science in context
2: Andrew Barker: Words for sounds
3: J. L. Berggren: Ptolemy's maps as an introduction to ancient science
4: Harry M. Hine: Seismology and vulcanology in antiquity
5: Alan C. Bowen: The art of the commander and the emergence of predictive astronomy
6: R. Hannah: Euctemon's parapegma
7: L. Taub: Instruments of Alexandrian astronomy: the uses of the equinoctial rings
8: J. J. Coulton: The Dioptra of Heron of Alexandria
9: S. Cuomo: The machine and the city: hero of Alexandria's Belopoecia
10: J. R. Milton: Ancient atomism: promise and failure
11: R. Netz: Greek mathematicians: a group picture
12: Edward Hussey: Aristotle and mathematics
13: C. M. Taisbak: Euclid's Elements 9.14 and the Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic
14: V. Nutton: Ancient medicine: Asclepius transformed
15: Teun Tieleman: Galen on the seat of the intellect: anatomical experiment and philosophical tradition
16: T. E. Rihll and J. V. Tucker: Practice makes perfect: processing materials in classical Athens
17: C. Anne Wilson: Distilling, sublimation, and the four elements: the aims and achievements of the earliest Greek chemists

About the Author

C. J. Tuplin is Reader in Ancient History at the University of Liverpool T. E. Rihll is Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Wales, Swansea

Reviews

... this book provides an accessible insight into a number of different areas ... well-produced volume ... where Greek or Latin texts are given in the original, they are translated. The index is useful and thorough. The Journal of Classics Teaching ... cutting-edge scholarship on ancient Greek science ... The editors have done a masterful job. History ... excellent collection ... The collection is made more useful by several features. Footnotes give full bibliographic citations, sparing the reader the need to flip back and forth from an article to the end of the book. But all citations are also gathered in a comprehensive bibliography at the end as well. An index locorum and an extensive general index further add to the usefulness of the volume. In short, a collection with much to offer to a variety of readers. Bryn Mawr Classical Review ... fresh insights into how ancient Greeks viewed the world and their place in it. Bryn Mawr Classical Review