Search Results: Science & Medicine from Ancient World Books

Alfred A. Knopf. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2009. Hardcover. 030726534X . Aladdin’s Lamp is the fascinating story of how ancient Greek philosophy and science began in the sixth century B. C. And, during the next millennium, spread across the Greco-Roman world, producing the remarkable discoveries and theories of Thales, Pythagoras, Hippocrates, Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Archimedes, Galen, Ptolemy, and many others. John Freely explains how, as the Dark Ages shrouded Europe, scholars in medieval Baghdad translated the works of these Greek thinkers into Arabic, spreading their ideas throughout the Islamic world from Central Asia to Spain, with many Muslim scientists, most notably Avicenna, Alhazen, and Averroës, adding their own interpretations to the philosophy and science they had inherited. Freely goes on to show how, beginning in the twelfth century, these texts by Islamic scholars were then translated from Arabic into Latin, sparking the emergence of modern science at the… Read More

The MIT Press. Very Good. 1970. Softcover. 0262540088 . Wraps a bit browned. Pages tanned. ; MIT Press paperbacks in the history of science & technology; 432 pages .

Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford. Good+ with no dust jacket. 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex-library copy with usual stamps, call numbers and pocket. Top corner slightly bumped. Rubbing to boards and extremities. ; A scarce and important work on the problems of stone construction in Ancient Egypt. ; 242 pages .

Michael O'Mara Books. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1995. Hardcover. 1854797778 . Pages tanned. Foxing to textblock. Dustjacket is protected in mylar. ; 9.3 X 7.4 X 1.7 inches; 672 pages .

Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1993. Hardcover. 2881246311 . 9.1 X 6.1 X 0.8 inches; 250 pages .

Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. Near Fine with no dust jacket. 1971. Hardcover. 3534045041 . Very light shelfwear else fine. ; Wege Der Forschung 221 (CCXXI) ; 525 pages .

Weidmannsche Buchhandlung / Apud Weidmannos. Very Good. 1964. Third Edition. Softcover. Spine is slightly browned and rubbed (effacing some of the lettering). First few pages have creasing to top corners. ; Xxxvi + 101 pp. Greek text with Latin introduction and apparatus. ; 101 pages .

Weidmannsche Buchhandlung. Very Good-. 1955. Second Edition. Softcover. Some pages unopened. Crease through upper corners of pages. Tear to base of spine (~1cm) with crease. Very light pencilling to a couple of pages. ; Xxxvi + 99 pp. Greek text with Latin introduction and apparatus. ; 101 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good+ dust jacket. 1997. Third Edition. Hardcover. 052158230X . Minor shelfwear. Scholar's name to ffep (D. Gerber). Light edgewear (minor chipping) to DJ. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 34; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 616 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket. 1997. Third Edition. Hardcover. 052158230X . Minor foxing to top of textblock. From the Library of G. P. Goold. DJ has 2 small tears to lower edge. ; Cambridge Classical Texts and Commentaries 34; 9.1 X 6.6 X 1.1 inches; 616 pages .

Oxbow Books. Fine with no dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 1842172387 . 328 pages; This book has come out of a project that pioneered, and is continuing to pioneer, the in-depth application of state of the art scientific analyses to ceramic artefacts and skeletal material. The vases and skeletons of Bronze Age Greece which are the subjects of this comprehensive study, do not appear as they do in their usual format - illustrations in a book with descriptions of contexts. In this project, and therefore in this book, each object is revealed from the inside, and because of this, it has a different story to tell - what people ate and drank in everyday life, the diet and health of the people who lived in Bronze Age Greece. By means of organic residue and stable isotope analysis, knowledge has been extended beyond anything previously gleaned through normal archaeological research. There are some fascinating insights, such as the origin of modern Greek retsina, which was traced first to the time of… Read More

Groningen. Near Fine. 1988. Hardcover. Minor scuffing to back wrap else fine. ; 70 text-figures & 118 tables. Page count: 213, 22 & 26. Text is in Dutch. ; Proefschrift (Diss. ) .

NY: Garland Publishing. Fine. 1987. Hardcover. 0824069250 . Reprint of the 1882 London ed. xxxiii, 263pp.; Greek & Roman Philosophy Volume 26; 263 pages .

University of Toronto Press. Fine with no dust jacket. 2000. Hardcover. 0802047963 . Phoenix Supplementary Volume XXXVIII; 336 pages; <p>Aristotle was the first philosopher to provide a theory of autonomous scientific disciplines and the systematic connections between those disciplines. This book presents the first comprehensive treatment of these systematic connections: analogy, focality, and cumulation.</p><p>Wilson appeals to these systematic connections in order to reconcile Aristotle's narrow theory of the subject-genus (described in the Posterior Analytics in terms of essential definitional connections among terms) with the more expansive conception found in Aristotle's scientific practice. These connections, all variations on the notion of abstraction, allow for the more expansive subject-genus, and in turn are based on concepts fundamental to the Posterior Analytics. Wilson thus treats the connections in their relation to Aristotle's theory of science… Read More

Éditions Latomus. Fine. 2003. Softcover. 2870312148 . Actes du Colloque international organisé à Créteil, Fontenay et Paris du 16 au 18 octobre 1997. ; Collection Latomus Volume 273; 399 pages .

Chicago: Ares Publishers Inc.. Near Fine. 1979. Softcover. 0890052778 . Reprint of the 1894 ed. ; 136 pages .

Springer-Verlag. Very Good. 1983. Softcover. 0387908447 . Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (G. P. Goold). Spine sunned. Minor scuffing to spine. ; Alternate ISBN: 3540908447 ; 9.4 X 6.0 X 1.3 inches; 551 pages .

Cambridge University Press. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 2008. Hardcover. 0521819547 . Light scuffing to boards with small pen mark to front board. ; Galen of Pergamum (AD 129-c.216) was the most influential doctor of later antiquity, whose work was to influence medical theory and practice for more than fifteen hundred years. He was a prolific writer on anatomy, physiology, diagnosis and prognosis, pulse-doctrine, pharmacology, therapeutics, and the theory of medicine; but he also wrote extensively on philosophical topics, making original contributions to logic and the philosophy of science, and outlining a scientific epistemology which married a deep respect for empirical adequacy with a commitment to rigorous rational exposition and demonstration. He was also a vigorous polemicist, deeply involved in the doctrinal disputes among the medical schools of his day. This volume offers an introduction to and overview of Galen's achievement in all these fields, while seeking also to… Read More

Harvard University Press & William Heinemann. Very Good with no dust jacket. 1961. Hardcover. 0674993705 . Light bumping to top of spine. Scholar's bookplate to inner cover (Robert Brown). Scholar's name to ffep (Robert Brown). ; Loeb Classical Library No. 336; Vol. 3; 368 pages; <p> A. Cornelius Celsus was author, probably during the reign of the Roman Emperor Tiberius (14–37 <span class="era">CE</span>), of a general encyclopaedia of agriculture, medicine, military arts, rhetoric, philosophy, and jurisprudence, in that order of subjects. Of all this great work there survives only the 8 books on medicine (<i>De Medicina</i>). Book I: after an excellent survey of Greek schools (Dogmatic, Methodic, Empiric) of medicine come sensible dietetics or health preservation which will always be applicable. Book II: deals with prognosis, diagnosis of symptoms (which he stresses strongly), and general therapeutics. Book III: internal ailments:… Read More

E. J. Brill. Very Good+ with no dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. Light Foxing/dustsoiling to top of textblock. Scholar's bookplate to inner covers (G. P. Goold). ; Contains Metrica of Hero / Heron of Alexandria with text, reproduction of the manuscript, scholia and commentaries. ; Janus Supplements; Contains a facsimile of the manuscript and Greek text + translation and commentary of this text on Geometry .