牛津通识读本：古希腊罗马科学 Ancient Greek and Roman Science：A Very Short Introduction
基本信息
Series:Very Short Introductions
Format:Paperback / softback 176 pages, 17 black and white images
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Imprint:Oxford University Press
ISBN:9780198736998
Published:25 May 2023
Weight:146g
Dimensions:110 x 174 x 11 (mm)
Pub. Country:United Kingdom
Country of Origin:GB
Tariff Codes:49019900
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书籍简介
非常简短的介绍： 古希腊通常被认为是科学和医学的发源地，也是在不求助于超自然原因的情况下解释自然现象的地方。早期的自然哲学家——关于自然的智慧爱好者——试图解释世界的秩序和构成，以及我们如何认识它。他们对什么存在以及它是如何被安排的特别感兴趣：本体论和宇宙论。
他们还关注我们如何认识（认识论）和如何更好地生活（伦理学）。同时，早期希腊和罗马的科学思想家也受到世界其他地区思想的影响，并在他们的研究中纳入了埃及、巴比伦和印度科学和数学的各个方面。在这本《极简介绍》中，利巴-陶布概述了公元前8世纪至公元6世纪之间早期科学的主要发展。
陶布以希腊和罗马为重点，挑战了现代人对古典世界科学的一些误解，这些误解往往是由现代科学家用现代眼光来看待的，例如认为很少进行实证研究，或者认为罗马人不像希腊人那样 "做 "科学。她从泰勒斯、毕达哥拉斯、巴门尼德和其他普鲁士人的科学概念开始，到柏拉图和亚里士多德，然后考虑希腊化科学、斯多葛派和伊壁鸠鲁派思想的影响，以及老普林尼、埃拉托色尼和托勒密的作品。陶布探讨了有关自然世界的思想的丰富性和创造性，以及这些思想对后来几个世纪的影响。
关于该系列：《极简介绍》系列包含了几乎所有学科领域的数百种书。这些袖珍书籍是快速掌握新学科的很棒的途径。我们的专家作者将事实、分析、观点、新想法和热情结合起来，使有趣和具有挑战性的主题具有高度的可读性。
Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, InspiringAncient Greece is often considered to be the birthplace of science and medicine, and the explanation of natural phenomena without recourse to supernatural causes. The early natural philosophers - lovers of wisdom concerning nature - sought to explain the order and composition of the world, and how we come to know it. They were particularly interested in what exists and how it is ordered: ontology and cosmology.
They were also concerned with how we come to know (epistemology) and how best tolive (ethics). At the same time, the scientific thinkers of early Greece and Rome were also influenced by ideas from other parts of the world, and incorporated aspects of Egyptian, Babylonian, and Indian science and mathematics in their studies. In this Very Short Introduction Liba Taub gives an overview of the major developments in early science between the 8th century BCE and 6th century CE.
Focussing on Greece and Rome, Taub challenges a number of modern misconceptions about science in the classical world, which has often been viewed with a modern lens and by modern scientists, such as the misconception that little empirical work was conducted, or that the Romans did not 'do' science, unlike the Greeks. Beginning with thescientific notions of Thales, Pythagoras, Parmenides and other Presocratics, she moves on to Plato and Aristotle, before considering Hellenistic science, the influence of the Stoics and Epicurean ideas, and the works of Pliny the Elder, Eratosthenes, and Ptolemy. In her sweeping discussion, Taub explores therichness and creativity of ideas concerning the natural world, and the influence these ideas have had on later centuries.
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作者简介
利巴-陶布是剑桥大学科学史和科学哲学系的科学史和科学哲学教授，也是惠普尔科学史博物馆的馆长和主任。她的书包括《剑桥古希腊和罗马科学伴侣》（2020年）；《剑桥科学史》卷一：古代科学（2018年），与亚历山大-琼斯合编；《希腊罗马古代的科学写作》（2017年）。
Liba Taub, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at Cambridge University, and Director of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science
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).
