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that criticisms as to the imperfections of the Greek scientific 

 method are invalid, but rather to assert, as most critics must agree, 

 that its merits outweighed its defects, and that the latter would 

 not have proved disastrous but for the development of political, 

 economic and military conditions under which the free Greek spirit 

 could not continue its wonderful achievements. 



REFEBENCES FOR READING 



BALL. Chapters IV, V. 



BERRY. Chapter II, Articles 37-54. 



DREYER. Chapters VI-IX. 



Gow. Chapters IV, VIII, IX, X. 



HEATH. Diophantus of Alexandria. Aristarchus of Samos. 



