112 PHYSICAL SCIENCES IN ANCIENT GREECE. 



advance terminated in a single stride. Archimedes 

 had stirred the intellectual world, but had not put 

 it in progressive motion : the science of mechanics 

 stopped where he left it. And though, in some 

 subjects, as in Harmonics, much was written, the 

 works thus produced consisted of deductions from 

 the fundamental principles, by means of arithme- 

 tical calculations ; occasionally modified, indeed, by 

 reference to the pleasures which music, as an art, 

 affords, but not enriched by any new scientific 

 truths. 



