Author:
Sarton, George, 1884-1956.
Imprint:Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1955.
Descriptionxvii, 233 p. : illus. ; 24 cm.
Note:"The A.S.W. Rosenbach Fellowship in Bibliography."
Note:"Lectures delivered, the first three as a Rosenbach fellow ... at the University of Pennsylvania, on January 16, 23,30, 1953, andd the fourth at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia on March 24."
Note:LECTURE I. MEDICINE: 1. Hippocrates of Cos -- 2. Celsus -- 3. Soranos of Ephesos -- 4. Galen of Pergamon -- 5. The early Byzantine physicians -- 6. Avicenna -- 7. Medical collections -- 8. A few words of conclusion -- LECTURE II. NATURAL HISTORY: 1. The four masters -- 2. Aristotle of Stageiros -- 3. Theophrastos of Eresos -- 4. Dioscorides of Anazarbos -- 5. Pliny the Elder -- 6. The development of naturalism in art and science -- 7. Printed images -- 8. The new herbals -- 9. The encyclopedists -- 10. The anatomists -- 11. Conclusions. -- LECTURE III. MATHEMATICS AND ASTRONOMY: 1. Plato and Aristotle -- 2. Euclid of Alexandria -- 3. Archimedes of Syracuse -- 4. Apollonios of Perga -- 5. Ptolemy of Alexandria -- 6. The Middle books -- 7. Arithmetic -- 8. Algebra -- 9. Trigonometry -- 10. Astronomy -- 11. Mathematical encyclopedias and dictionaries -- EPILOGUE -- Appendix: The survival of ancient and medieval men of science in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical notes.
