Science In Antiquity, Dr. Jon Mandaville
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Science In Antiquity

Author: Dr. Jon Mandaville

Series: The Science and Discovery Series

Narrator: Edwin Newman

Unabridged: 2 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks

Published: 02/25/2006

Genre: Science

Synopsis

After 3500 B.C., when cuneiform writing was developed and recorded history began, science first emerged among stargazing astronomerpriests in ancient west Asia. The gods were identified with the stars (which could influence events on earth); foundation cosmologies expressed a view of how the world began, usually with flood themes related to the end of the Ice Age in 8000 B.C.. After the 5th century B.C., Greek thinkers (such as Thales, Pythagoras, Euclid, Protagoras, Democritus, and Archimedes) began to challenge the myths of Homeric poetry; they developed logic and philosophy as new ways of knowing. Epicurus developed a materialistic philosophy, based on Democritus theory of atoms. Zeno and his Stoic philosophy opposed Epicureanism, finding reality in an everpresent vital spirit that controls the physical world. Hippocrates founded medical practice on the theory that the body has four humors (blood, phlegm, yellow bile, and black bile); the 1st century Roman physician, Galen, later produced anatomical studies that would remain influential until the Renaissance. Galens contemporary, Ptolemy, produced a cosmology that also would last almost 1500 years. Plato had used reason to envision truth and to discern the unchanging laws or principles of nature but his ideas were often detached from observation and experience. Aristotle, in the 4th century B.C., relied much more heavily on direct observation of natures objects and processes; he is regarded as the first empiricist. Aristotles on cosmology, physical cause and effect, and the basic elements (fire, earth, water, and air) were to prevail for 2000 years.

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