Liba Taub: 2 books
by Liba Taub
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
We access Greek and Roman scientific ideas mainly through those texts which happen to survive. By concentrating only on the ideas conveyed, we may limit our understanding of the meaning of those ideas in their historical context. Through considering the diverse ways in which scientific ideas were...
by Liba Taub
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2004
The first book of its kind in English, Ancient Meteorology discusses Greek and Roman approaches and attitudes to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets that today would be regarded as geological, astronomical...