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Science, Ancient --- Science --- History --- Science, Ancient. --- History. --- Sciences anciennes --- Sciences --- Histoire --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Science - History

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Science, Ancient --- Physics --- Sciences anciennes --- Physique --- Congresses. --- Early works to 1800. --- Congrès --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- Aristotle. --- Congrès --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Science --- History

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The science called 'harmonics' was one of the major intellectual enterprises of Greek antiquity. Ptolemy's treatise seeks to invest it with new scientific rigour; its consistently sophisticated procedural self-awareness marks it as a key text in the history of science. This book is a sustained methodological exploration of Ptolemy's project. After an analysis of his explicit pronouncements on the science's aims and the methods appropriate to it, it examines Ptolemy's conduct of his investigation in detail, concluding that despite occasional uncertainties, the declared procedure is followed with remarkable fidelity. Ptolemy pursues tenaciously his novel objective of integrating closely the project's theoretical and empirical phases and shows astonishing mastery of the concept, the design and the conduct of controlled experimental tests. By opening up this neglected text to historians of science, the book aims to provide a point of departure for wider studies of Greek scientific method.

Music theory --- Science, Ancient. --- Théorie musicale --- Sciences anciennes --- History --- Histoire --- Ptolemy, --- 78.63 --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Science --- Music --- Theory --- Ptolemaeus, Claudius.

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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.

Science, Ancient --- Ethnoscience. --- Science --- Philosophy --- History. --- Methodology --- Historiography. --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Indigenous knowledge systems --- Traditional knowledge systems (Ethnology) --- Ethnology --- History