CONTENTS 



CHAPTER VII 



GREEK SCIENCE IN THE EARLY ATTIC PERIOD 



Anaxagoras, p. 140 His ideas of the sun and stars, and the origin 

 of the heavenly bodies, p. 143 His conception of universal gravi- 

 tation, p. 145 Anaxagoras. as meteorologist, p. 151 His biological 

 speculations, p. 152 His physical speculations, p. 154 Leucippus 

 and Democritus, p. 161 Democritus and the primordial atom, p. 

 163 Comparison of Anaxagoras and Democritus as inductive 

 thinkers, p. 163 Hippocrates and Greek medicine, p. 170 His 

 humoral theory of disease, p. 176. 



CHAPTER VIII 



POST-SOCRATIC SCIENCE AT ATHENS 



Socrates and Plato, p. 179 Aristotle, p. 182 His teachings as to 

 the shape of the earth, p. 183 His studies in zoology, p. 185 The 

 similarity of his division of the animal kingdom to the Lamarckian 

 system, p. 187 Theophrastus, the father of botany, p. 188. 



CHAPTER IX 



GREEK SCIENCE OF THE ALEXANDRIAN OR HELLENISTIC PERIOD 



Alexandria and Ptolemy Soter, p. 189 The great school of science 

 founded, p. 190 Studies in geography and astronomy, p. 191 

 Euclid and systematic geometry, p. 192 Herophilus and Erasistra- 

 tus and their studies of anatomy, p. 194 Archimedes and the foun- 

 dation of mechanics, p. 196 His mechanical contrivances for the 

 defence of Syracuse, p. 201 Plutarch's estimate of Archimedes, p. 

 203 Aristarchus of Samos, p. 212 His anticipation of Copernicus 

 in his solution of the mechanism of the solar system, p. 214 His 

 theory of the revolution of the earth, p. 215 Eratosthenes, "the 

 surveyor of the world," p. 225 Hipparchus, "the lover of truth," 

 P- 2 33 His measurement of the length of the year and the moon's 

 disk, p. 239 Ctesibus and Hero, magicians of Alexandria, p. 242 

 Hero's steam-engine and other mechanical devices, p. 249. 



CHAPTER X 



SCIENCE OF THE ROMAN PERIOD 



Strabo the geographer, p. 255 His belief in the globe's sphericity, 

 p. 258 His division of the earth into zones, p. 262 Pliny the elder 



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