Acknowledgments Note on Dates Foreword (by the series editor) Ch 1: Strange Worlds Ch 2: Strange Creatures Ch 3: Natural Laws and How to Discover Them Ch 4: Illness and Disease Ch 5: Controlling the World Ch 6: Then and Now Some Suggestions for Further Reading Notes Index

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Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, this work addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.

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Philippa Lang was Associate Professor of Classics at Emory University, and is the author of Medicine in Ptolemaic Egypt (2012).

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