This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Noted scholar's brilliant recapitulation of major intellectual achievements of Western civilization in the three centuries immediately preceding the birth of Christ. Focus is on Greek astronomy, physics, technology, anatomy and other sciences, but philosophy, religion, language, sculpture, painting and literature are also discussed. "He ranges freely through these centuries and their achievements, master of his subject and superb literary craftsman"-Times Literary Supplement (London). 112 illustrations. Bibliography.

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

Contributing Authors Include John Mundy, E. Von Erhardt-Siebold, Alexandre Koyre, E. W. J. Neave And M. F. A. Montagu.

Memoirs Of The American Philosophical Society, V20, 1943.

This is a new release of the original 1946 edition.

Memoirs Of The American Philosophical Society, V20, 1943.

This Article Is Contained In The July 1946 Issue Of The Journal Of The History Of Medicine And Allied Sciences. Contents Also Include: Benjamin Waterhouse, Josiah Charles Trent; Students Of Physic And Astrology, Hugh G. Dick; Anne Home Hunter And Her Friends, Jane M. Oppenheimer; And More.

This Article Is Contained In The July 1946 Issue Of The Journal Of The History Of Medicine And Allied Sciences. Contents Also Include: Benjamin Waterhouse, Josiah Charles Trent; Students Of Physic And Astrology, Hugh G. Dick; Anne Home Hunter And Her Friends, Jane M. Oppenheimer; And More.

This Article Is Contained In The July 1946 Issue Of The Journal Of The History Of Medicine And Allied Sciences. Contents Also Include: Benjamin Waterhouse, Josiah Charles Trent; Students Of Physic And Astrology, Hugh G. Dick; Anne Home Hunter And Her Friends, Jane M. Oppenheimer; And More.