By Georgia L. Irby
A significant other to technology, expertise, and drugs in historic Greece and Rome brings a clean viewpoint to the learn of those disciplines within the old global, with 60 chapters reading those themes from a number of serious and technical perspectives.
- Brings a clean viewpoint to the research of technology, know-how, and medication within the historic global, with 60 chapters reading those subject matters from numerous serious and technical perspectives
- Begins assurance in six hundred BCE and comprises sections at the later Roman Empire and past, that includes dialogue of the transmission and reception of those rules into the Renaissance
- Investigates key disciplines, options, and hobbies in historic technology, know-how, and medication in the historic, cultural, and philosophical contexts of Greek and Roman society
- Organizes its content material in halves: the 1st specializes in mathematical and ordinary sciences; the second one makes a speciality of cultural purposes and interdisciplinary themes
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