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Preface |
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1 SCIENCE BEFORE THE GREEKS |
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Prehistoric Attitudes toward Nature |
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The Beginnings of Science in Egypt and Mesopotamia |
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2 THE GREEKS AND THE COSMOS |
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The World of Homer and Hesiod |
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The First Greek Philosophers |
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The Milesians and the Question of Underlying Reality |
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The Achievement of Early Greek Philosophy |
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3 ARISTOTLE'S PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE |
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Metaphysics and Epistemology |
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Motion, Terrestrial and Celestial |
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4 HELLENISTIC NATURAL PHILOSOPHY |
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The Lyceum after Aristotle |
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5 THE MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES IN ANTIQUITY |
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The Application of Mathematics to Nature |
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Cosmological Developments |
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Hellenistic Planetary Astronomy |
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6 GREEK AND ROMAN MEDICINE |
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Hellenistic Anatomy and Physiology |
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Hellenistic Medical Sects |
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Galen and the Culmination of Hellenistic Medicine |
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7 ROMAN AND EARLY MEDIEVAL SCIENCE |
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Popularizers and Encyclopedists |
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Roman and Early Medieval Education |
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Two Early Medieval Natural Philosophers |
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Learning and Science in the Greek East |
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Eastward Diffusion of Greek Science |
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The Birth, Expansion, and Hellenization of Islam |
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Translation of Greek Science into Arabic |
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Islamic Reception and Appropriation of Greek Science |
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The Islamic Scientific Achievement |
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The Fate of Islamic Science |
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9 THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING IN THE WEST |
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The Schools of the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries |
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Natural Philosophy in the Twelfth-Century Schools |
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10 THE RECOVERY AND ASSIMILATION OF GREEK AND ISLAMIC SCIENCE |
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Aristotle in the University Curriculum |
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Resolution: Science as Handmaiden |
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Radical Aristotelianism and the Condemnations of 1270 and 1277 |
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The Relations of Philosophy and Theology After 1277 |
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11 THE MEDIEVAL COSMOS |
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The Structure of the Cosmos |
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12 THE PHYSICS OF THE SUBLUNAR REGION |
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Matter, Form, and Substance |
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Mathematical Description of Motion |
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The Dynamics of Local Motion |
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Quantification of Dynamics |
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13 MEDIEVAL MEDICINE AND NATURAL HISTORY |
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The Medical Tradition of the Early Middle Ages |
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The Transformation of Western Medicine |
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Medicine in the Universities |
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Disease, Diagnosis, Prognosis, and Therapy |
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Development of the Hospital |
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14 THE LEGACY OF ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL SCIENCE |
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Candidates for Revolutionary Status |
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The Scientific Revolution |
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Notes |
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Bibliography |
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Index |
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