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CONTENTS 



Preface . 

 Introduction 



EGYPT AND GHALDEA 



i. The Mathematical Sciences 



2. The Astronomical Sciences 



3. The Physical and Natural Sciences 



GREEK AND ROMAN SCIENCE 



PART I. HISTORICAL OUTLINE 

 General Characteristics .... 



Chap. I. The Hellenic Period, 650-300 b.c 



Ionia and Asia Minor 

 Pythagoras and his School 

 The Eleatic School 

 Atomistic Tendencies 

 Medical Science 



The Exact Sciences in the fifth and fourth cen- 

 turies b.c. The Schools of Athens and Cyzicus 

 Aristotle. The Natural Sciences 



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Chap. II. The Alexandrian Period. From 300 b.c. 

 to the first century of the Christian Era 



1. Mathematics, Physics and Mechanics 



2. Geography and Astronomy .... 



3. Medicine and the Natural Sciences 



Chap. III. The Greco-Roman Period. From the 

 Christian Era to the Sixth Century a.d. 



1. The Romans and Science .... 



2. Greek Science in the East .... 



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