Science in the ancient world : an encyclopedia / Russell M. Lawson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lawson, Russell M., 1957-

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central.

Series:

ABC-CLIO's history of science series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Science, Ancient--History--Encyclopedias.

Science, Ancient.

Science--history.

History, Ancient.

History.

Medical Subjects:

Science--history.

History, Ancient.

Genre:

Encyclopedias.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxv, 291 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2004]

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Academy

Aelian, Claudius (floruit early third century CE)

Agathemerus (floruit first century CE)

Agriculture

Alcmaeon (floruit 500 BCE)

Alexander of Macedon (356-323 BCE)

Alexandria

Ammianus Marcellinus (325-395 CE)

Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (500-428 BCE)

Anaximander of Miletus (610-540 BCE)

Anaximenes of Miletus (585-525 BCE)

Apollonius of Perga (floruit 235 BCE)

Apollonius of Rhodes (third century BCE)

Archelaus of Athens (fifth century BCE)

Archimedes (287-212 BCE)

Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BCE)

Aristotle (384-322 BCE)

Arrian (89-180 CE)

Asclepiades (floruit first century BCE)

Asclepius/Asclepiads

Asia, East and South

Astronomy

Athenaeus

Athens

Atoms

Aurelius Augustine (354-430 CE)

Aurelius, Marcus (121-180 CE)

Babylon

Bronze Age (3500-800 BCE)

Caesar, Julius (100-44 BCE)

Calendars and Dating Systems

Cato, Marcus Porcius (Elder) (234-149 BCE)

Celsus (floruit 25 CE)

Cicero (106-43 BCE)

Columella (5 BCE-60 CE)

Commentators

Constantinople

Constellations

Democritus (460-370 BCE)

Diogenes of Apollonia (late fifth century BCE)

Diogenes Laertius (third century CE)

Dreams

Easter

Egypt

Eleatic School

Elements

Empedocles (495-435 BCE)

Engineering and Technology

Epictetus (55-135 CE)

Epicureanism

Epicurus (341-271 BCE).

Erasistratus (275-194 BCE)

Eratosthenes (276-195 BCE)

Euclid (floruit 300 BCE)

Eudoxus of Cnidus (408-352 BCE)

Eunapius (floruit fifth century CE)

Frontinus, Sextus Julius (floruit late first century CE)

Galen (130-200 CE)

Gaza

Geminus (floruit first century CE)

Geography/Geodesy

Greek Archaic Age (800-500 BCE)

Greek Classical Age (500-331 BCE)

Greek Hellenism (331-30 BCE)

Greek Hellenistic Science (331-30 BCE)

Hecataeus of Miletus (floruit 500 BCE)

Hellanicus of Lesbos (floruit fifth century BCE)

Heraclides of Pontus (fourth century BCE)

Heraclitus of Ephesus (540-480 BCE)

Hero (62-152 CE)

Herodotus of Halicarnassus (490-430 BCE)

Herophilus of Chalcedon (third century BCE)

Hesiod (ca. 700 BCE)

Hipparchus (190-120 BCE)

Hippo of Croton (sixth century BCE)

Hippocrates (460-377 BCE)

History

Homer (floruit 750 BCE)

Hydraulics

Hypatia of Alexandria (370-415 CE)

Iamblichus (250-325 CE)

Ionians

Iron Age

Irrigation Techniques

Julian (331-363)

Later Roman Empire (180-565 CE)

Leucippus (fifth century BCE)

Life Sciences

Logos

Lucretius (first century BCE)

Lyceum

Magi

Magic

Magna Graecia

Marine Science

Mathematics

Maximus of Ephesus (fourth century CE)

Medicine

Mesopotamia (3500-550 BCE).

Meteorology

Miletus

Military Science

Mountains

Myth

Nearchus of Crete (ca. 360-312 BCE)

Neolithic Age

Neoplatonism

New Testament

Old Testament (Hebrew Bible)

Oribasius of Pergamon

Paganism

Palladius (floruit mid fourth century BCE)

Peripatetic School

Philo of Byzantium (260-180 BCE)

Philolaus (fifth century BCE)

Philosophy

Philostratus (170-250 CE)

Phoenicians

Physical Sciences

Plato (427-347 BCE)

Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE)

Pliny the Younger (61-113 CE)

Plutarch (46-120 CE)

Polybius (208-126 BCE)

Porphyry (234-305 CE)

Posidonius of Rhodes (135-50 BCE)

Prometheus

Psychology

Ptolemaeus, Claudius (100-170 CE)

Pythagoras (570-490 BCE)

Pytheas of Massilia (floruit third century BCE)

Roman Principate (30 BCE-180 CE)

Roman Roads and Bridges

Rome

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (5-65 CE)

Seven Sages

Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Social Sciences

Socrates (470-399 BCE)

Solon (640-560 BCE)

Stoicism

Strabo (63 BCE-21 CE)

Tacitus (56-117 CE)

Thales (625-545 BCE)

Themistius (317-388 CE)

Theophrastus (370-286 BCE)

Thucydides (460-400 BCE)

Time

Varro (116-27 BCE)

Vesuvius

Vitruvius (floruit 25 BCE)

Women and Science

Xenophanes of Colophon (570-478 BCE)

Xenophon (430-355 BCE).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781851095391

185109539X

Publisher Number:

99990106848

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