MARC Record from harvard_bibliographic_metadata

LEADER: 02366cam a2200349 a 4500
001 009000173-7
005 20050607170711.0
008 030107s2002 enka b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2003265274
015 $aGBA2-W2344
020 $a0198152485 (acid-free paper)
035 0 $aocm50175970
040 $aUKM$cUKM$dDLC$dEXW$dVVC
042 $alccopycat
043 $ae-gr---
050 00 $aQ127.G7$bS364 2002
082 00 $a509.38$221
245 00 $aScience and mathematics in ancient Greek culture /$cedited by C.J. Tuplin and T.E. Rihll.
260 $aOxford ;$aNew York :$bOxford University Press,$c2002.
300 $axvi, 379 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
500 $aPapers from "Science matters : the role and achievement of science in Greek antiquity", a conference held in Liverpool July 1996.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes.
505 0 $aGreek science in context / T.E. Rihll -- Words for sounds / Andrew Barker -- Ptolemy's maps as an introduction to ancient science / J.L. Berggren -- Seismology and vulcanology in antiquity? / Harry M. Hine -- The art of the commander and the emergence of predictive astronomy / Alan C. Bowen -- Euctemon's Parapēgma / R. Hannah -- Instruments of Alexandrian astronomy: the uses of the equinoctial rings / L. Taub -- The dioptra of Hero of Alexandria / J.J. Coulton -- The machine and the city: Hero of Alexandria's Belopoeica / S. Cuomo -- The limitations of ancient atomism / J.R. Milton -- Greek mathematicians: a group picture / R. Netz -- Aristotle and mathematics / Edward Hussey -- Euclid's Elements 9. 14 and the fundamental theorem of arithmetic / C.M. Taisbak -- Ancient medicine: Asclepius transformed / V. Nutton -- Galen on the seat of intellect: anatomical experiment and philosophical tradition / Teun Tieleman -- Practice makes perfect: knowledge of materials in classical Athens / T.E. Rihll and J.V. Tucker -- Distilling, sublimation, and the four elements: the aims and achievements of the earliest Greek chemists / C. Anne Wilson.
651 0 $aGreece$xCivilization$yTo 146 B.C.
650 0 $aScience$zGreece$xHistory.
650 0 $aScience and civilization.
650 0 $aScience, Ancient.
650 0 $aMathematics, Greek$xHistory.
700 1 $aTuplin, Christopher.
700 1 $aRihll, T. E.$q(Tracey Elizabeth),$d1960-
988 $a20021209
906 $0OCLC