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Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science (Paperback)
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Principles and Practices in Ancient Greek and Chinese Science (Paperback)
Series: Variorum Collected Studies
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From the 90 or so articles he has published in the last two decades
Professor Lloyd has chosen fifteen of the most important and
influential to be reprinted in this collection. They tackle a wide
range of problems in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, focussing
especially on science but including also medicine, mathematics,
philosophy and mythology. Three common themes recur: the ancients'
own concern with disciplinary boundaries, their engagement in
polemics, and the heterogeneity of different traditions -
cultivating different styles of reasoning with different results -
in ancient science. Alongside papers that deal with technical
issues in the interpretation of our sources, others raise strategic
questions to do with the institutional framework of ancient
science, the role of literacy in its development, and the
underlying ontological and epistemological presuppositions of
different groups of ancient investigators. The collection closes
with a study in which Lloyd sets out how he sees the further
comparative study of ancient science developing. Two of the
articles appear here for the first time in English. The others are
reprinted in their original form. Supplementary bibliographies are
added referring to the most recent scholarship on the issues
discussed.
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