Eureka! : The Invention of Science
Language: English
Published by Icon Publishing Limited, 2001
Series: Book 3 of 12 - Icon Science
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- Title
- Eureka! : The Invention of Science
- Author
- Gregory, Andrew
- Publisher
- Icon Publishing Limited
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1840462892
- ISBN 13
- 9781840462890
- Item weight
- 0.575 pounds
- Dimensions
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- Series
- Book 3 of 12: Icon Science
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Eureka! shows that science began with the Greeks. Disciplines as diverse as Medicine, Biology, Engineering, Mathematics and Cosmology all have their roots in the Ancient Greeks. Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars, master architects all of the modern as well as the ancient. What lay behind this colossal eruption of scientific activity?
Free from intellectual and religious dogma, the Greeks rejected explanation in terms of myths and capricious gods and in distinguishing between the natural and supernatural, they effectively discovered nature. Theories began to be tested leading a rapid increase in their sophistication with new and better ones being developed. Furthermore, they came to be conscious of the distinction between science and technology.
Andrew Gregory unravels the genesis of science in this fascinating exploration of the origins of Western civilisation, and out desire for a rational, legitimating system of the world.
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