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Expanding horizons in the history of science : = the comparative approach /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Expanding horizons in the history of science :/ G.E.R. Lloyd.
Reminder of title:	the comparative approach /
Author:	Lloyd, G. E. R.
Description:	1 online resource (vi, 155 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
Notes:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).
Subject:	Science, Ancient - Cross-cultural studies. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029285
ISBN:	9781009029285 (ebook)

Expanding horizons in the history of science : = the comparative approach /
Lloyd, G. E. R.1933-

Expanding horizons in the history of science :the comparative approach /G.E.R. Lloyd. - 1 online resource (vi, 155 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 20 Aug 2021).

On aspects of the status quaestionis -- Translatability, intelligibility, revisability -- Demystifying the Greek miracle -- The question of causal factors -- The criteria of theories, simplicity for instance -- Supplementary note on Greek astronomical models -- Definitions and the problems of foreclosure -- The challenge of 'mythology' -- Elements, processes, substances, stuff -- Health and disease, illness and well-being -- Mind, body, heart, brain, soul, spirit.

This book challenges the common assumption that the predominant focus of the history of science should be the achievements of Western scientists since the so-called Scientific Revolution. The conceptual frameworks within which the members of earlier societies and of modern indigenous groups worked admittedly pose severe problems for our understanding. But rather than dismiss them on the grounds that they are incommensurable with our own and to that extent unintelligible, we should see them as offering opportunities for us to revise many of our own preconceptions. We should accept that the realities to be accounted for are multi-dimensional and that all such accounts are to some extent value-laden. In the process insights from current anthropology and the study of ancient Greece and China especially are brought to bear to suggest how the remit of the history of science can be expanded to achieve a cross-cultural perspective on the problems.

ISBN: 9781009029285 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

1441809
Science, Ancient
--Cross-cultural studies.

LC Class. No.: Q124.95 / .L59 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 509/.01

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