Greek Science

This history of Greek science follows inquiry into nature from the Milesian thinkers of the sixth century BCE through the Hellenistic and Roman periods, ending with figures such as Ptolemy and Galen. Lloyd treats cosmology, mathematics, medicine, biology, and astronomy as practices with methods and institutions, not as a list of lucky guesses. He discusses the Presocratics, the Hippocratic writers, Plato and Aristotle, the Lyceum, Alexandria, and later specialists, asking how argument, observation, and demonstration were used. The book is a study of how the Greeks explained the physical world and the body, written for readers of intellectual history rather than as a textbook of results.

Three-quarter-bound in buckram with a Modigliani paper side printed with a design by Adam Simpson. Brown slipcase.