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Die Antike-Rezeption in den Wissenschaften während der Renaissance
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ISBN: 3527170049 9783527170043 Year: 1983 Volume: 10 Publisher: Weinheim Acta humaniora

Ancient Natural History : Histories of Nature
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ISBN: 0415115450 0415088801 9780415115452 Year: 1994 Volume: *2 Publisher: London : Routledge,

Texts and contexts in ancient and medieval science : studies on the occasion of John E. Murdoch's seventieth birthday
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ISBN: 9004108238 9004247327 9789004108233 Year: 1997 Volume: 78 Publisher: Leiden : E.J. Brill,

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These studies respond to the challenge posed twenty years ago by John E. Murdoch, in whose honor they have been assembled: to interpret ancient and medieval mathematical and scientific texts not just as isolated intellectual productions but as responses to particular settings or contexts. Two broad settings are explored here: that of the wider intellectual culture, where relations among mathematics, astronomy, natural philosophy - and also theology, logic and astrology - are shown to have shaped individual texts; and the context of lay society, where institutional structures, patronage, even personal relationships impinged upon scientific writing. The volume reinforces the growing recognition that ancient and medieval scientific texts "made a difference" to their authors and audiences and must be understood in relation to topics like disciplinary identity, career advancement, lay interest, and practical applicability. Publications by John E. Murdoch : Edited by Christoph Lüthy, John E. Murdoch and William R. Newman , Late Medieval and Early Modern Corpuscular Matter Theories , ISBN : 978 90 04 11516 3

Ancient meteorology.
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ISBN: 0415161967 0415161959 0203638735 0203634284 1280022825 9786610022823 113471775X 9780203634288 9780415161954 9780415161961 9781134717750 9781134717705 1134717709 9781134717743 1134717741 Year: 2003 Volume: *5 Publisher: London Routledge

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Discusses Greek and Roman approaches to this broad discipline, which in classical antiquity included not only 'weather', but occurrences such as earthquakes and comets. It is the first book of its kind in English.

Studies on the transmission of medieval mathematical astronomy
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ISBN: 0860789497 Year: 2004 Volume: 787

The first fossil hunters : paleontology in Greek and Roman times.
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ISBN: 0691089779 0691058636 Year: 2001 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press


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Science in ancient China : researches and reflections
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ISBN: 0860784924 Year: 1995 Publisher: Aldershot Variorum


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More mathematicorum : Rezeption und Transformation der antiken Gestalten wissenschaftlichen Wissens im 12. Jahrhundert
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ISBN: 3402039982 9783402039984 Year: 1996 Volume: 47 Publisher: Münster Aschendorff

The order of nature in Aristotle's Physics : place and the elements
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ISBN: 0521624533 0521042291 0511570600 9780521624534 9780511570605 9780521042291 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge Cambridge University press

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This 1999 book demonstrates a method for reading the texts of Aristotle by revealing a continuous line of argument running from the Physics to De Caelo. The author analyses a group of arguments that are almost always treated in isolation from one another, and reveals their elegance and coherence. She concludes by asking why these arguments remain interesting even though we now believe they are absolutely wrong and have been replaced by better ones. The book establishes the case that we must rethink our approach to Aristotle's physical science and Aristotelian texts, and as such will provoke debate and stimulate new thinking amongst philosophers, classicists, and historians of science.

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