Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle

This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers, and Aristotle. G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between science and philosophy and science and medicine; he discusses the social and economic setting of early Greek science; and he analyzes the motives and incentives of the different groups of writers.

• Author
• G.E.R. Lloyd

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 176

• Publisher
• W. W. Norton & Company

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780393005837

• Genres
• history, science, philosophy, greece, ancient

• Release date
• 1974