Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Exact sciences in Greek antiquity / edited by Stephanos A. Paipetis and Vassilis Kostopoulos.

Publication Info. Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2019.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Summary This book consists of 24 papers on ancient Greek science and technology. It covers such areas as mathematics, physics, engineering, astronomical methods and instruments, and environmental issues. A great variety of topics are discussed, including medical care in ancient Olympiads, mathematical concepts in Plato, the concept of the rate of change in various mathematical areas and the concept of symmetry in ancient Greece. Aristotle's Physics on free falling bodies, world-structure formation and matter according to the Presocratics, acoustic phenomena in archaeological sites, Trojan Horse recons.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Science -- Greece -- History.
Science.
Greece.
History.
Greece -- Antiquities.
Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Author Paipetis, S. A., editor.
Kostopoulos, V. (Vassilis), editor.
Other Form: Print version: Paipetis, Stephanos A. Exact Sciences in Greek Antiquity. Newcastle-upon-Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publisher, ©2019 9781527533554
ISBN 1527536130 (electronic book)
9781527536135 (electronic book)