Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into Ancient Greek and Chinese Science (Ideas in Context, Series Number 42)

by: G.E.R. Lloyd (Author)

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2010/9/15

Language: English

Print Length: 276 pages

ISBN-10: 0521556953

ISBN-13: 9780521556958

Book Description

Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book consists of a series of detailed studies of cosmology, natural philosophy, mathematics and medicine that suggest the answer to the first question is yes. To answer the second, the author relates the science produced in each ancient civilization first to the values of the society in question and then to the institutions within which the scientists and philosophers worked.

About the Author

Did science and philosophy develop differently in ancient Greece and ancient China? If so, can we say why? This book consists of a series of detailed studies of cosmology, natural philosophy, mathematics and medicine that suggest the answer to the first question is yes. To answer the second, the author relates the science produced in each ancient civilization first to the values of the society in question and then to the institutions within which the scientists and philosophers worked.