List of Contributors vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction 1
Liba Taub
1 Presocratic Natural Philosophy 15
Patricia Curd
2 Reason, Experience, and Art: The Gorgias and On
Ancient Medicine 39
James Allen
3 Towards a Science of Life: The Cosmological Method,
Teleology, and Living Things 58
Klaus Corcilius
4 Aristotle on the Matter for Birth, Life, and the Elements 79
David Ebrey
5 From Craft to Nature: The Emergence of Natural Teleology 102
Thomas Kjeller Johansen
6 Creationism in Antiquity 121
David Sedley
7 What’s a Plant? 141
Laurence M. V. Totelin
8 Meteorology 160
Monte Ransome Johnson
9 Ancient Greek Mathematics 185
Nathan Sidoli
10 Astronomy in Its Contexts 208
Liba Taub
11 Ancient Greek Mechanics and the Mechanical Hypothesis 229
Sylvia Berryman
12 Measuring Musical Beauty: Instruments, Reason, and
Perception in Ancient Harmonics 248
Massimo Raffa
13 Ancient Greek Historiography of Science 268
Leonid Zhmud
Bibliography 289
Index Locorum 319
General Index 332