Author:
Taub, Liba, 1954- author.
ImprintOxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Descriptionxxii, 154 pages : illustrations, maps ; 18 cm.
Note:Understanding the world -- Expert poets -- Inventing nature -- Those clever Greeks -- Let no one unskilled in geometry enter -- A theory of everything -- Old school ties -- Roman nature -- River deep, mountain high -- Is there scientific progress? -- Going by the book, or not -- Beyond antiquity.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-143) and index.