SCIENCE: ANTIQUITY AND ITS LEGACY
Book ID/图书代码： 06545014B67298
English Summary/英文概要： Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest. This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. It is aimed at crossover student sales in classics, the history of ideas and the history and philosophy of science. Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. But the bold investigative experimentation and scientific systems of thought that this era spawned were in turn thoroughly influenced by Greek and Roman authors and ideas. Xenophanes’ ideas about fossils informed the science of geology. Copernicus and his novel notion that the earth revolved around the sun, and not vice versa, were arguably influenced by the Samian philosopher and mathematician, Aristarchus. And the anatomists of Alexandria still - even today - have valuable insights to bring to current ethical discussions of vivisection and animal welfare. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid’s geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, Philippa Lang addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of ’science’.
She discusses the origins of the cosmos; natural laws in mathematics and physics; conceptions and philosophies of biology and disease; ideas about mechanistic science and technology as they have been used to control the societies of human beings; and the important nexus between science, morality and ethics. Greek and Roman parallels illuminate and clarify the meaning of science itself.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 古老科学这一命题一直以来引发广泛的兴趣。 这是首次对古老和现代科学之间非技术性探索。 本书旨在面对那些研习古希腊文学、观念史和科学历史哲学的交换学生。 现代科学和它的技术在十七世纪的萌芽。 而这个时代大胆的科学调查实验和系统理念却是深受希腊和罗马作者和理念的影响。 （希腊哲学家）色诺芬尼Xenophanes关于化石的想法为我们了地质科学提供了资料。 （波兰天文学家）哥白尼Copernicus和他发表关于地球围绕太阳运转的观点，而非之前人们所认为的宇宙万物都环绕地球运转的理论， 可以说对后来(希腊)萨摩斯岛Samian的哲学家和数学家阿利斯塔克（古希腊天文学家）有着深远的影响。 而解剖学家亚历山大的独到见解-甚至时至今日-仍是当前针对活体解剖和动物保护道德议点。书中聚集了，例如欧几里德几何学，亚里士多德的物理学，和像恩培多克勒（古希腊哲学家）那样的，（古希腊哲学家）苏格拉底和达尔文进化论这些早前的科学理论的全新主题，本书的作者Philippa Lang演绎了古代和现代之间‘科学’构想有趣的区别和相似性。
她探讨了宇宙的起源;数学和物理的自然定律; 生物学和疾病的哲学; 想法关于机构科学和技术，曾被人类用于社会的机械科技知识; 以及其与科学、道德和伦理之间的重要联系。 古希腊和古罗马共同说明和验证了科学本身的真正意义。(Sandy)
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About the Author/作者介绍： Philippa Lang是美国艾莫利大学古希腊学的助教，她是《治疗之梦：古埃及托勒密派医学》一书的作者。Philippa Lang is Assistant Professor of Classics at Emory University, and the author of A Dream of Healing: Medicine in Ptolomaic Egypt (2011).
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