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An Introduction to the History of Science

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An Introduction to the History of Science

Walter Libby

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Science did not begin in a laboratory; it began with Egyptian surveyors and Babylonian stargazers. Walter Libby traces the long road through Aristotle's Greece, Vitruvius's Rome, and the slow braiding of theory with practical need. A readable map of how humans learned to know the world. Follow the idea of knowledge from the Nile onward.

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74 chapters

  1. 1AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE
  2. 2PREFACE
  3. 3CONTENTS
  4. 4ILLUSTRATIONS
  5. 5AN INTRODUCTION TO THE HISTORY OF SCIENCE CHAPTER I
  6. 6SCIENCE AND PRACTICAL NEEDS—EGYPT AND BABYLONIA
  7. 7REFERENCES
  8. 8CHAPTER II
  9. 9THE INFLUENCE OF ABSTRACT THOUGHT—GREECE: ARISTOTLE
  10. 10REFERENCES
  11. 11CHAPTER III
  12. 12SCIENTIFIC THEORY SUBORDINATED TO APPLICATION—ROME: VITRUVIUS
  13. 13REFERENCES
  14. 14CHAPTER IV
  15. 15THE CONTINUITY OF SCIENCE—THE MEDIEVAL CHURCH AND THE ARABS
  16. 16REFERENCES
  17. 17CHAPTER V
  18. 18THE CLASSIFICATION OF THE SCIENCES—FRANCIS BACON

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