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Nature, Gardens & Animals
Greek Biology & Greek Medicine
Charles Singer
152 pages~3 hr 1 min read7 chapters$1.99
Long before the microscope, Greek thinkers laid the foundations of biology and medicine. Charles Singer traces the story before, during, and after Aristotle, then turns to the healing arts of ancient Greece. A crisp scholarly tour of where the life sciences began. For the reader curious about the classical roots of how we study living things. Meet biology in its youth.
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7 chapters
- 1I GREEK BIOLOGY GREEK MEDICINE
- 2PREFACE
- 3GREEK BIOLOGY
- 4§ 1. Before Aristotle
- 5§ 2. Aristotle
- 6§ 3. After Aristotle
- 7GREEK MEDICINE
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