Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Expert poets
2: Inventing nature
3: Those clever Greeks
4: Let no one unskilled in geometry enter here
5: A theory of everything
6: Old school ties
7: Roman Natura
8: How high the moon? River Deep Mountain High
9: Is there scientific progress?
10: Going by the book - or not
11: Beyond antiquity
Ancient Science timeline
Further Reading
Index

About the Author

Liba Taub is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.She is a Fellow of Newnham College. Her books include The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science (2020); The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1: Ancient Science (2018), co-edited with Alexander Jones; and
Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2017).