Methods and problems in Greek science

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Acknowledgements Introduction 1. The development of Aristotle's theory of the classification of animals 2. Right and left in Greek philosophy 3. Who is attacked in On Ancient Medicine? 4. Experiment in early Greek philosophy and medicine 5. Popper versus Kirk: a controversy in the interpretation of Greek science 6. The social background of early Greek philosophy and science 7. Greek cosmologies 8. Alcmaeon and the early history of dissection 9. The Hippocratic question 10. The empirical basis of the physiology of the Parva Naturalia 11. Saving the appearances 12. The debt of Greek philosophy and science to the ancient Near East 13. Observational error in later Greek science 14. Plato on mathematics and nature, myth and science 15. Science and morality in Greco-Roman antiquity 16. Aristotle's zoology and his metaphysics: the status quaestionis: a critical review of some recent theories 17. Galen on Hellenistics and Hippocrateans 18. The invention of nature Index of passages cited General index.