Table of Contents

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.

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A collection of the most important papers published by G. E. R. Lloyd on Greek science since 1961.