Acknowledgements Dedication The Creation of Science 1. The Early Greeks and their Predecessors Science Must Begin with Myths Two Cultures Cosmos : an Elegant Universe Myths and Theories Natural Phenomena 2. The First Scientific Theories The Fathers of Medicine Eleatics and Atomists :Achilles and the Tortoise The Pythagoreans:the Secret Magic of Numbers Come the Time of Proof Euclid Science and Technology Great Achievement Assured 3. Men of the World Plato Teleology:the Best of all Possible Worlds Atomism : Let us Trace the Pattern No Slight or Trivial Influence Aristotle: The Master of Those who Know The Terrestrial Realm The Heavens Speculations Upon Matter Aristotle and Qualities Explanations Direction of Explanation : Clockwork Lives 4. Heavenly Thoughts Eudoxus : Thinking Regressively Ptolemaic Astronomy The Four Seasons Revolutionary Thinking Modelling the Heavens 5. The Origins of the Cosmos and of Life: Consider your Origins 6. Medicine and the Life Sciences Galen Ancient Thought on Blood Aristotle and Biology: Biology's Beginnings Embryology and Species Taxonomy 7. Later Greek Science: After Aristotle Epicurus and Epicureanism : on the Nature of Things Stoics:the Active and the Passive …… The Creation of Science Appendices
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