The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece - Couverture souple

Lloyd, Geoffrey; Sivin, Nathan

 
9780300101607: The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0300101600 ISBN 13 : 9780300101607
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

The rich civilizations of ancient China and Greece built sciences of comparable sophistication--each based on different foundations of concept, method, and organization. In this engrossing book, two world-renowned scholars compare the cosmology, science, and medicine of China and Greece between 400 B.C. and A.D. 200, casting new light not only on the two civilizations but also on the evolving character of science.

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd and Nathan Sivin investigate the differences between the thinkers in the two civilizations: what motivated them, how they understood the cosmos and the human body, how they were educated, how they made a living, and whom they argued with and why. The authors' new method integrally compares social, political, and intellectual patterns and connections, demonstrating how all affected and were affected by ideas about cosmology and the physical world. They relate conceptual differences in China and Greece to the diverse ways that intellectuals in the two civilizations earned their living, interacted with fellow inquirers, and were involved with structures of authority.

By A.D. 200 the distinctive scientific strengths of both China and Greece showed equal potential for theory and practice. Lloyd and Sivin argue that modern science evolved not out of the Greek tradition alone but from the strengths of China, Greece, India, Islam, and other civilizations, which converged first in the Muslim world and then in Renaissance Europe.

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À propos de l?auteur

Sir Geoffrey Lloyd is emeritus professor of ancient philosophy and science at the University of Cambridge. Nathan Sivin is professor of Chinese culture and of the history of science at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Éditeur
Yale University Press
Date d'édition
2003
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0300101600
ISBN 13 
9780300101607
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
368
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

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9780300092974: The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0300092970 ISBN 13 :  9780300092974
Editeur : Yale University Press, 2002
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