Expanding horizons in the history of science : : the comparative approach / / G.E.R. Lloyd.
This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked a...
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Lloyd, G. E. R. (Geoffrey Ernest Richard), 1933- author. Expanding horizons in the history of science : the comparative approach / G.E.R. Lloyd. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021. 1 online resource (vi, 155 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021). On aspects of the status quaestionis -- Translatability, intelligibility, revisability -- Demystifying the Greek miracle -- The question of causal factors -- The criteria of theories, simplicity for instance -- Supplementary note on Greek astronomical models -- Definitions and the problems of foreclosure -- The challenge of 'mythology' -- Elements, processes, substances, stuff -- Health and disease, illness and well-being -- Mind, body, heart, brain, soul, spirit. This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that extent unintelligible, we should see them as offering opportunities for us to revise many of our own preconceptions. We should accept that the realities to be accounted for are multi-dimensional and that all such accounts are to some extent value-laden. In the process insights from current anthropology and the study of ancient Greece and China especially are brought to bear to suggest how the remit of the history of science can be expanded to achieve a cross-cultural perspective on the problems. Science, Ancient Cross-cultural studies. Ethnoscience. Science Philosophy History. Science Methodology History. Science, Ancient Historiography. Print version: Lloyd, G. E. R. 1933- Expanding horizons in the history of science Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 9781316516249 (DLC) 2021024590 |
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