Title Expanding horizons in the history of science : the comparative approach / G.E.R. Lloyd

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021 ©2021

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 155 pages) : illustrations Contents 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 Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 19, 2021) Subject Science, Ancient -- Cross-cultural studies Science, Ancient -- Historiography Science -- Methodology -- History Science -- Philosophy -- History Ethnoscience. PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical. Ethnoscience Science, Ancient Science, Ancient -- Historiography Science -- Methodology Science -- Philosophy Genre/Form Cross-cultural studies History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021024591 ISBN 9781009029285 1009029282

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