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Origins of Ancient Greek Science

Michael Boylan
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ancient medicine
Animal Kingdom
Anonymus Londinensis
Aristotle
Author_Michael Boylan
biological methodology
biomedicine
Bodily Heat
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Conditional Necessity
Coolest Heat
De Placitis Hippocratis
Early Greek Thought
Epistemological Anti-realism
epistemology of science
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Galen
Galenic tradition
Hippocrates
Hippocratic corpus
Hippocratic Period
Hippocratic Writers
history of cardiovascular theory
history of medicine
history of philosophy
Innate Heat
Kata Phusin
Natural Pneuma
Nonmaterial Explanation
Para Phusin
Peri Gones
philosophy of biology
Plato
Pneuma Pulses
Pre-500 BCE
pre-Socratic philosophy
Psychic Pneuma
Sacred Disease
Skin Breathing
theory of nourishment
Von Staden
Watery Part
Young Man

Product details

  • ISBN 9780415843935
  • Weight: 385g
  • Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
  • Publication Date: 23 Apr 2015
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Description

This book examines the origins of ancient Greek science using the vehicles of blood, blood vessels, and the heart. Careful attention to biomedical writers in the ancient world, as well as to the philosophical and literary work of writers prior to the Hippocratic authors, produce an interesting story of how science progressed and the critical context in which important methodological questions were addressed. The end result is an account that arises from debates that are engaged in and "solved" by different writers. These stopping points form the foundation for Harvey and for modern philosophy of biology. Author Michael Boylan sets out the history of science as well as a critical evaluation based upon principles in the contemporary canon of the philosophy of science—particularly those dealing with the philosophy of biology.
About Michael Boylan
Michael Boylan (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Marymount University. He has delivered invited lectures in 15 countries on five continents. Most recently, he has spoken on Greek science at the American Philological Association; an international United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) conference in Pergamum, Turkey; and at the Sorbonne (Paris IV).

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