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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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (vi, 155 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021). |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.